APC, which is short for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a script app, which could boost a database-driven Internet site several times. Each time a PHP webpage is opened, the script pulls the content that should be shown from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and then the result is displayed to the visitor. While this is necessary for websites with frequently changing content, it is a complete waste of processing time and resources for an Internet site which doesn't change, for instance an informational portal that shows the same content on a regular basis. Once the pages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them any time a user opens them. As this saves the time to request content from the database and to parse and compile the program code, the website will load considerably faster. APC is very helpful especially for scripts with large source code.

APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting

You can use APC with each and every shared hosting package that we provide since it's already present on our advanced cloud platform and activating it will take you only a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel. As our system is rather flexible, you'll be able to run websites with different system requirements and decide whether they will use APC or not. For example, you can enable APC only for one version of PHP or you could do the latter for several of the versions that run on our platform. In addition, you can choose if all websites using a certain PHP version will use APC or if the latter will be enabled only for selected Internet sites and not for all websites in the hosting account. The aforementioned option is useful if you'd like to employ a different web accelerator for some of your Internet sites. These customizations are performed without any difficulty via a php.ini file in selected domain or subdomain folders.