Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache servers that is used to cache the output code of script applications. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and could accelerate such an Internet site as much as three times. PHP sites are dynamic and any time a user accesses some web page, the script hooks up to a database in order to get some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled before it is displayed to the website visitor. If the output code doesn't change however, that's the case with sites which show identical content all the time, such actions trigger unnecessary reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the already compiled code and delivers it each time visitors browse a website, so the database doesn't need to be accessed and the code does not have to be parsed and compiled continuously, which in turn decreases the Internet site loading time. The module could be pretty useful for informational websites, blogs, portfolios, and so on.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Cloud Hosting
You can employ APC for your web applications with all of the cloud hosting plans that we offer because it's pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Activating it will take only a single click inside the Hepsia Control Panel that comes with our shared solutions and a few minutes later it will start caching the program code of your apps. Our platform is quite flexible, so you'll be able to use different configurations based on the system requirements of your scripts. For instance, you will be able to activate APC for several releases of PHP for the entire account and specify the version that each Internet site will use, or you can have the very same version of PHP, but activate or deactivate APC just for specified websites. You can do this by putting a php.ini file with a line of code in the domain or subdomain folder where you require the customized setup.