Alternative PHP Cache, or APC, is a module for Apache web servers that is employed to cache the output code of script apps. It is very effective for scripts with large source code and can accelerate such a website as much as three times. PHP websites are dynamic and each time a website visitor accesses some webpage, the script links to a database in order to retrieve some content, and then the code is parsed and compiled before it is shown to the site visitor. In case the output code doesn't change however, that's the case with websites which show the very same content all of the time, these actions result in needless reading and writing. What APC does is that it caches the previously compiled program code and delivers it each time visitors browse a website, so the database does not have to be accessed and the code doesn't have to be parsed and compiled repeatedly, that in turn lowers the Internet site loading time. The module could be very helpful for informational Internet sites, blogs, portfolios, and so on.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Web Hosting
You can employ APC for your web applications with all of the shared web hosting packages that we provide as it's pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Turning it on will take just a single click in the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with our shared plans and a couple of minutes later it'll start caching the code of your apps. Our platform is quite flexible, so you'll be able to use several configurations determined by the system requirements of your scripts. For instance, you will be able to activate APC for a couple of releases of PHP for the entire account and specify the version that each website will use, or you could have the very same version of PHP, but enable or disable APC just for specific sites. 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 custom setup.