Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers which is employed to cache the output code of script apps. It is very useful for scripts with large source code and can speed up such a website as much as three times. PHP websites are dynamic and each time a user opens some page, the script hooks up to a database in order to retrieve some content, then the code is parsed and compiled before it's displayed to the website visitor. In case the output code doesn't change however, which is the case with Internet sites that display the exact same content at all times, such actions trigger excessive reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled code and delivers it every time visitors browse a website, so the database does not need to be accessed and the code does not need to be parsed and compiled continuously, which in turn reduces the Internet site loading time. The module could be pretty effective for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, etc.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting
APC is provided with every single shared web hosting package that we offer and you could enable it with only a click from your Hepsia Control Panel if you would like to use it for your web apps. A couple of minutes later the framework will be active and you will experience the faster loading speed of your database-driven Internet sites. Since we provide several releases of PHP that can also be selected from Hepsia, you will even be able to employ APC for scripts which need different versions of PHP within the very same account. Our leading-edge cloud hosting platform is very adaptable, so if you use some other web accelerator for any website and it disturbs APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a specific site only by using a php.ini file generated in the domain or subdomain folder.