APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP websites store their content within a database which is accessed whenever a visitor opens a page. The content which needs to be displayed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the website visitor. These actions need some processing time and include reading and writing on the server for each page that is opened. While this can't be avoided for websites with regularly changing content material, there're numerous Internet sites that offer the same content on many of their pages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, and many others. APC is extremely useful for this kind of sites as it caches the already compiled code and shows it each time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled all over again. Not only will this reduce the server load, but it'll also boost the speed of any site a few times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Website Hosting
You can use APC with every single website hosting package that we offer since it is already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you just a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is really flexible, you can run Internet sites with different system requirements and decide if they will work with APC or not. For example, you could activate APC only for one version of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the releases that run on our platform. In addition, you can 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 Internet sites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you would like to employ a different web accelerator for several of your websites. These customizations are carried out without difficulty through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.