APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script applications. Dynamic PHP websites store their content in a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content that should be displayed is retrieved and the code is parsed and compiled before it's delivered to the visitor. All of these actions need some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for each and every page which is loaded. While this can't be avoided for sites with regularly changing content material, there are numerous Internet sites which present the same content on a number of of their pages at all times - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, etcetera. APC is exceptionally useful for this type of websites as it caches the previously compiled code and displays it any time visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code doesn't need to be parsed and compiled again. This will not only decrease the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any site many times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting
You will be able to employ APC for your web applications with all of the shared web hosting packages that we offer since it is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform. Enabling it will take only a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our shared plans and several minutes later it'll begin caching the code of your software applications. Our platform is really flexible, so you will be able to use several configurations determined by the system requirements of your scripts. For instance, you'll be able to activate APC for several versions of PHP for the entire account and pick the version that each site will use, or you could have the same version of PHP, but enable or disable APC only for particular websites. This is done by placing a php.ini file with a line of code within the domain or subdomain folder where you require the customized configuration.