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How To Install OpCache on DirectAdmin with CustomBuild?

Last Updated: January 25, 2022

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If you need to install Opcache, you can use this guide to accomplish this. You need first to check if it is installed or not because it is common to adjust the Opcache configuration, and you do not want to reinstall it and lose any previous customizations you made. Thus, use the below command to […]

PHP OPcode Cache Install Guide

Last Updated: January 23, 2026

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Overview Each time when PHP script executes on the server it goes through the following stages: tokenizing, parsing, compilation, and interpretation. PHP opcode caching allows skipping the first 3 stages by storing pre-compiled scripts in shared memory and reusing them. This significantly increases the performance of running PHP scripts. 
 It is important to know […]