Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers which is employed to cache the output code of script applications. It is very efficient for scripts with large source code and will speed up such a website up to three times. PHP websites are dynamic and whenever a user accesses a webpage, the script hooks up to a database to get some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled before it's shown to the site visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that is the case with sites which display the same content all the time, these actions trigger excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the previously compiled code and delivers it any time visitors browse a site, so the database does not need to be accessed and the program code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled again and again, that consequently lowers the Internet site loading time. The module could be very efficient for informational Internet sites, blogs, portfolios, etcetera.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting

You can use APC with each and every cloud hosting package that we provide since it is already installed on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is extremely flexible, you can run websites with various system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For instance, you can enable APC only for a single version of PHP or you can do this for several of the releases that run on the platform. It's also possible to choose if all Internet sites working with a given PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled just for selected Internet sites and not for all sites in the web hosting account. The last option is useful when you want to employ a different web accelerator for some of your sites. These customizations are carried out without any difficulty via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to use APC for each and every script application that runs on your new semi-dedicated hosting because the module is already installed on the cloud hosting platform where the account will be generated. Activating or deactivating APC for the whole account requires a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel, but if necessary, you can use the module only for specific sites. This is possible due to the versatility of our cloud platform - multiple releases of PHP run on it concurrently, so with a php.ini file placed in a site folder, you can choose what version will be used for this specific website and whether APC should be enabled or disabled. Using such a file permits you to use settings which are different from the ones for your account, so you can take advantage of APC for many scripts where the module makes a difference and not for others where you could employ another type of web accelerator.