APC (PHP Opcode Cache)
Learn what the phrase ‘APC’ represents, precisely what APC is capable of doing PHP overall performance-wise and ways to enable it for your account.
APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP websites store their content inside a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content that has to be displayed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the website visitor. These actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the hosting server for each and every page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for websites with regularly changing content material, there are numerous sites that have the same content on a lot of of their webpages at all times - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant sites, etcetera. APC is very useful for this kind of websites since it caches the previously compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly. Not only will this reduce the server load, but it will also boost the speed of any Internet site a few times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting
APC is available with each shared hosting package that we offer and you can enable it with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel if you'd like to use it for your applications. Several minutes later the framework will be active and you will be able to take advantage of the faster loading speed of your database-driven websites. Since we offer several releases of PHP that could also be selected through Hepsia, you will even be able to use APC for scripts which need different versions of PHP within the same account. Our high tech cloud hosting platform is extremely flexible, so in case you use another web accelerator for any website and it disrupts APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a specific site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.