APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP websites save their content within a database which is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content which should be displayed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the website visitor. All of these actions need some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for each page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with constantly changing content, there're various Internet sites that have the very same content on many of their webpages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, and many others. APC is extremely useful for this kind of websites because it caches the already compiled code and shows it when visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. This will not only reduce the server load, but it will also increase the speed of any site several times.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

You will be able to use APC for your web apps with any of the cloud website hosting packages that we offer as it is pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Activating it will take just a click in the Hepsia Control Panel which is provided with our shared solutions and a few minutes later it will begin caching the program code of your software apps. Our platform is really flexible, so you'll be able to use different configurations determined by the system requirements of your scripts. For example, you'll be able to activate APC for several releases of PHP for the entire account and choose the version that each site will use, or you could have the same version of PHP, but enable or disable APC just for particular Internet sites. You can do this by placing a php.ini file with a line of program code in the domain or subdomain folder where you need the custom setup.