Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers which is used to cache the output code of script applications. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and can boost such a website up to three times. PHP websites are dynamic and each time a website visitor opens some web page, the script connects to a database in order to retrieve some content, then the code is parsed and compiled before it's displayed to the visitor. In case the output code does not change however, which is the case with Internet sites which display identical content all the time, these actions result in needless reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it each time visitors browse a website, so the database does not need to be accessed and the program code does not have to be parsed and compiled again and again, that in turn reduces the website loading time. The module could be extremely effective for informational sites, blogs, portfolios, etc.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting
APC is provided with each and every shared hosting solution that we offer and you could enable it with just a click from your Hepsia Control Panel if you wish to use it for your applications. A few minutes later the framework will be working and you'll experience the quicker loading speed of your database-driven websites. Since we provide several releases of PHP that could also be selected from Hepsia, you'll even be able to to use APC for scripts that need different versions of PHP within the very same account. Our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform is extremely flexible, so if you use an alternative web accelerator for any Internet site and it disturbs APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a certain site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.