Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers that is employed to cache the output code of script applications. It is very useful for scripts with large source code and can accelerate such an Internet site up to 3 times. PHP sites are dynamic and any time a visitor opens a webpage, the script links to a database to get some content, after that the code is parsed and compiled before it is shown to the visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that's the case with websites that display identical content all of the time, such actions result in needless reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the previously compiled program code and delivers it whenever visitors browse an Internet site, so the database doesn't have to be accessed and the code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled continuously, that consequently reduces the site loading time. The module could be pretty helpful for informational sites, blogs, portfolios, etcetera.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting

APC is provided with each cloud hosting plan that we offer and you could enable it with just a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you'd like to use it for your applications. A few minutes later the framework will be active and you will be able to take advantage of the considerably faster loading speed of your database-driven Internet sites. Since we provide different versions of PHP which could also be selected from Hepsia, you'll even be able to to employ APC for scripts that need different versions of PHP inside the very same account. Our high tech cloud web hosting platform is very flexible, so in case you use an alternative web accelerator for any Internet site and it disrupts APC, you could activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a certain site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.