APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP sites keep their content in a database that is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content which needs to be shown is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the site visitor. All these actions need some processing time and include reading and writing on the hosting server for every single page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for websites with constantly changing content, there're various websites which feature the exact same content on many of their webpages constantly - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, etc. APC is really useful for such sites since it caches the already compiled code and displays it whenever visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled all over again. This will not only greatly reduce the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any website a few times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting
You can use APC with each and every shared website hosting plan that we offer as it is already installed on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you only a few clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. As our platform is really flexible, you'll be able to run sites with various system requirements and decide whether they will use APC or not. For instance, you could enable APC only for a single release of PHP or you can do this for several of the releases running on the platform. You can also decide if all sites using a specific PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be enabled just for selected Internet sites and not for all websites in the web hosting account. The last option is useful when you'd like to employ a different web accelerator for several of your sites. These customizations are performed effortlessly via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.