APC, or Alternative PHP Cache, is a PHP module which caches the output code of database-driven script software applications. Dynamic PHP Internet sites keep their content inside a database that is accessed whenever a visitor opens a webpage. The content that needs to be displayed is gathered and the code is parsed and compiled before it is delivered to the website visitor. These actions take some processing time and require reading and writing on the web server for each page which is accessed. While this cannot be avoided for sites with regularly changing content, there are many Internet sites that feature the same content on many of their pages all the time - blogs, info portals, hotel and restaurant websites, etc. APC is really useful for such Internet sites because it caches the previously compiled code and shows it whenever visitors browse the cached pages, so the code doesn't need to be parsed and compiled all over again. This will not only minimize the server load, but it will also raise the speed of any Internet site a few times.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Website Hosting
You can use APC for your web apps with all of the cloud website hosting packages that we provide because it's pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Turning it on will take only a click inside the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our shared solutions and several minutes later it'll begin caching the code of your applications. Our platform is quite flexible, so you will be able to use different configurations based on the system requirements of your scripts. For instance, you'll be able to activate APC for several releases of PHP for the whole account and set the version that each Internet site will use, or you could have the exact same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC only for specific websites. This is done by putting a php.ini file with a line of program code inside the domain or subdomain folder where you require the customized configuration.