APC, which is an acronym for Alternative PHP Cache, is a framework used for caching the compiled source code of a given script application, which could speed up a database-driven Internet site several times. Each time a PHP page is accessed, the script pulls the content which should be displayed from a database, parses and compiles the program code, and the result is shown to the website visitor. While this is necessary for websites with constantly changing content, it's a total waste of processing time and system resources for a website which doesn't change, such as an informational portal which displays the very same content at all times. As soon as the pages for such an Internet site are compiled, APC caches them and delivers them each time a user accesses them. As this saves the time to get content from the database and to parse and compile the code, the website will load significantly faster. APC is really effective particularly for scripts with large source code.
APC (PHP Opcode Cache) in Shared Hosting
You'll be able to use APC for your web apps with any of the shared hosting packages that we offer as it is pre-installed on our cloud website hosting platform. Turning it on will take just a click in the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with our shared plans and several minutes later it'll start caching the program code of your software apps. Our platform is quite flexible, so you will be able to use different configurations determined by the system requirements of your scripts. For instance, you could activate APC for several releases of PHP for the entire account and specify the version that each site can use, or you could have the exact same version of PHP, but enable or disable APC only for specified Internet sites. You can do this by placing a php.ini file with a line of program code within the domain or subdomain folder where you require the custom setup.