APC, which is short for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a given script application, that can speed up a database-driven Internet site several times. Every time a PHP web page is opened, the script pulls the site content which should be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and the result is displayed to the site visitor. While this is necessary for websites with regularly changing content, it's a waste of processing time and system resources for a site that does not change, for instance an informational portal that displays the exact same content on a regular basis. Once the pages for such a website are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them every time a website visitor accesses them. As this saves the time to collect content from the database and to parse and compile the code, your Internet site will load a lot quicker. APC is very useful in particular for scripts with massive source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting

You can use APC with each shared web hosting package that we provide as it's already installed on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is rather flexible, you will be able to run sites with different requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For example, you can activate APC only for one version of PHP or you can do this for several of the releases running on the platform. It's also possible to decide if all sites working with a specific PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be active only for selected Internet sites and not for all sites in the 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 effortlessly by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.