APC, which is an acronym for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script app, that can boost a database-driven website several times. Any time a PHP page is accessed, the script pulls the website content that has to be loaded from a database, parses and compiles the code, and the result is shown to the site visitor. While this is necessary for websites with frequently changing content, it's a waste of processing time and system resources for an Internet site which does not change, for example an informational portal that displays identical content on a regular basis. Once the webpages for such a website are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them whenever a user opens them. Since this saves the time to request content from the database and to parse and compile the code, the Internet site will load considerably faster. APC is really effective in particular for scripts with massive source code.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Hosting
APC is provided with each hosting package that we offer and you can enable it with only a click through your Hepsia Control Panel if you would 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 sites. Since we provide different versions of PHP which could also be selected from Hepsia, you will even be able to use APC for scripts that require different versions of PHP in the very same account. Our next generation cloud Internet hosting platform is extremely adaptable, so if you use some other web accelerator for any website and it interferes with APC, you'll be able to activate or deactivate the aforementioned for a certain site only by using a php.ini file created in the domain or subdomain folder.