APC, which stands for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script application, that could speed up a database-driven Internet site several times. When a PHP webpage is opened, the script pulls the site content that needs to be loaded from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and then the result is shown to the website visitor. While this is necessary for sites with constantly changing content, it is a total waste of processing time and system resources for a site that does not change, like an informational portal that shows the very same content at all times. Once the webpages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them every time a website visitor opens them. Since this saves the time to request content from the database and to parse and compile the code, the site will load considerably faster. APC is very effective particularly for scripts with larger source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting

You can use APC with every single cloud website hosting package that we offer as it's already set up on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. As our platform is really flexible, you can run websites with various system requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For example, you can allow APC only for a single version of PHP or you can do the latter for several of the releases that run on our platform. It's also possible to decide if all sites using a particular PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled just for selected Internet sites and not for all Internet sites in the website hosting account. The last option is useful if you want to employ a different web accelerator for several of your websites. These customizations are carried out effortlessly by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.