APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP websites save their content within a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a page. The content which should be shown is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the site visitor. All of these actions need some processing time and include reading and writing on the web server for each page that is loaded. While this cannot be avoided for Internet sites with constantly changing content, there are various sites that have the exact same content on a number of of their webpages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant sites, and many others. APC is really useful for this type of websites as it caches the previously compiled code and shows it when visitors browse the cached pages, so the code doesn't need to be parsed and compiled all over again. This will not only greatly reduce the server load, but it'll also raise the speed of any website many times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Hosting
You can use APC with every single hosting plan that we offer because it's already present on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you just a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is rather flexible, you'll be able to run sites with various system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For example, you can allow APC only for a single version of PHP or you could do this for several of the releases that run on our platform. You can also select if all Internet sites using a particular PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled just for selected sites and not for all websites in the website hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful when you need to employ a different web accelerator for several of your websites. These customizations are performed without any difficulty by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.