Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers which is used to cache the output code of script applications. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and can boost such a website as much as 3 times. PHP websites are dynamic and whenever a user accesses some web page, the script hooks up to a database to get some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled before it's shown to the website visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that's the case with Internet sites that display the exact same content all the time, these actions trigger unneeded reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the previously compiled code and delivers it whenever visitors browse a site, so the database does not need to be accessed and the code does not have to be parsed and compiled over and over again, which in turn reduces the Internet site loading time. The module could be really efficient for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, etcetera.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Website Hosting
You will be able to employ APC for your web apps with any of the shared website hosting packages that we offer because it's pre-installed on our cloud web hosting platform. Turning it on will take just a click in the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with our shared solutions and a few minutes later it'll begin caching the program code of your software applications. Our platform is quite flexible, so you will be able to use several configurations in accordance with the system requirements of the scripts. For example, you'll be able to activate APC for a couple of releases of PHP for the entire account and select the version that each Internet site will use, or you could have the exact same version of PHP, but enable or disable APC only for particular sites. You can do this by placing a php.ini file with a line of program code in the domain or subdomain folder where you require the custom setup.