APC (PHP Opcode Cache)
What does the abbreviation 'APC' signify? Why is the presence of APC inside your account important as far as your PHP-based websites are involved? How can you turn on this option?
APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP Internet sites store their content within a database which is accessed whenever a visitor loads a webpage. The content that should be viewed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled prior to it being delivered to the site visitor. All of these actions need some processing time and require reading and writing on the server for each and every page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for sites with regularly changing content, there're various Internet sites that feature the same content on many of their webpages at all times - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant Internet sites, etcetera. APC is extremely useful for such Internet sites because it caches the already compiled code and displays it every time visitors browse the cached pages, so the code does not need to be parsed and compiled again. Not only will this lower the server load, but it will also boost the speed of any Internet site many times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting
You can use APC with each and every shared web hosting plan that we provide since it's already present on our advanced cloud platform and enabling it will take you only a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia Control Panel. Since our system is quite flexible, you'll be able to run websites with different requirements and decide if they will use APC or not. For example, you could activate APC only for one release of PHP or you could do this for several of the versions that run on our platform. It's also possible to select if all websites working with a particular PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be active only for selected websites and not for all Internet sites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you want to employ a different web accelerator for some of your sites. These customizations are carried out without difficulty by using a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.
