CPanel includes support in their installer for eaccelerator; still, for some strange reason they don’t include support for APC also. So, if you want to install APC on your CPanel powered server, you will have to go back at the command line and install it manually. Here are the steps needed to install the latest [...]
PHP is slow. This should not be a huge revelation for any of us, and this is not because PHP is a bad programing language, or because Python or Ruby are better. This is because it is an interpreted language. Every time you execute a PHP script it is going to do the exact same [...]
APC (Alternative PHP Cache) is a free, open, and robust framework for caching and optimizing PHP intermediate code. APC is a great tool to speed up a php driven site and I can’t even think of a big site running on a php framework without an opcode cache (other good choices are eaccelerator or xcache). [...]
