Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers that is used to cache the output code of script apps. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and will accelerate such a site as much as 3 times. PHP sites are dynamic and every time a website visitor accesses some page, the script connects to a database in order to retrieve some content, then the code is parsed and compiled before it's shown to the visitor. In case the output code does not change however, that is the case with Internet sites which display the very same content at all times, these actions result in unnecessary reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled program code and delivers it whenever visitors browse an Internet site, so the database does not have to be accessed and the program code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled over and over again, which in turn decreases the Internet site loading time. The module can be very helpful for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, and many others.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

You'll be able to use APC for your web apps with all of the shared hosting packages that we provide since it is pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform. Activating it will take only a single click in the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with our shared solutions and a few minutes later it will start caching the program code of your software applications. Our platform is really flexible, so you'll be able to use different configurations determined by the system requirements of the scripts. For example, you'll be able to activate APC for a couple of versions of PHP for the whole account and set the version that each website will use, or you can have the exact same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC just for particular websites. This is done by putting a php.ini file with a line of program code within the domain or subdomain folder where you need the custom setup.