APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module that caches the output code of database-driven script software apps. Dynamic PHP sites save their content inside a database which is accessed whenever a visitor opens a page. The content that 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 involve reading and writing on the server for every single page which is opened. While this cannot be avoided for websites with constantly changing content, there're a lot of sites that present the exact same content on a number of of their webpages constantly - blogs, informational portals, hotel and restaurant websites, and many others. APC is exceptionally useful for this kind of sites since it caches the previously compiled code and displays it when visitors browse the cached webpages, so the code does not have to be parsed and compiled all over again. Not only will this minimize the server load, but it'll also boost the speed of any site many times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting
You can use APC with every single cloud website hosting package that we provide since it is already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you just a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is really flexible, you can run sites with different system requirements and decide whether they will work with APC or not. For instance, you can enable APC only for a single release of PHP or you could do this for several of the releases running on our platform. You may also decide if all Internet sites using a certain PHP version will use APC or whether the latter will be active just for selected websites and not for all websites in the hosting account. The last option is useful when you intend to employ a different web accelerator for several of your Internet sites. These customizations are done with ease through a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.