Installing the right PHP Accelerator

I ran <host tools> from Admin and all returned OK! But I noticed a suggestion that Dolphin can be much faster if you install some PHP accelerator..

I tried to rebuild <EasyApache> to see if I can enable Accelerator, but I couldn't see it, so I am assuming it is not installed. Next, I wanted to install it but not sure which PHP Accelerator I need to install..

And from my Admin panel, I see the report below <Memcache> <APC> or <XCache>  are not installed. And during <EasyApache> rebuild I noticed XCache is not enabled and not sure if I should enable it because it will disable EAccelerator 0.9.6.1 for PHP Opcache 

Don't use XCache. Use APCu (install it from WHM's module installer => PECL) with OPCache (enabled from the exhaustive options screen in EasyApache), and make sure to configure both after. Dolphin will fly.

Newer versions of PHP are coming with the op cache built in.

Thanks Nathan. You gave me the right direction as to what to look for and got it working successfully  :)

Please note, I couldn't  find PECL on WHM, but here is what I did if anyone is trying to apply the same process, which I got from this link:  http://tinyurl.com/o6dwzl7

1. INSTALL PACKAGES

Login via SSH as "root" user on your cPanel server and execute the following commands:

$ yum install pcre-devel        (this package was already installed on my system)

$ pecl install apcu-beta         (apcu was not installed on my system)

Restart Apache via WHM

Edit php.ini and add apcu parameters below

[apcu] 

apc.enabled = 1 

apc.shm_size = 256M              # note, in my case I doubled this value to 512M since I have 32G RAM

Restart Apache via WHM.

Please note, this time, when I tried to rebuild Apache, I did see [OPCache] already enabled. So I went ahead and rebuilt Apache again with OPCache checked just to make sure it is part of Apache configuration.

But, after I ran [hosts tools] from Admin again, I still see the same warning:

WARNING (installing PHP accelerator will speed-up file cache)
WARNING (Dolphin can be much faster if you install some PHP accelerator))
 

I am a bit confused - isn't APCu considered an Accelerator tool ? I was hoping to see this warning GONE after  I enabled php OPCache  - Is there anything else I need to do to remove this warning ?  unless I am missing something..

One more thing, I also checked [Cache Engines] via Admin, I still see APC not installed.. But I thought I just installed it.. Now, I am totally confused 

Correction -
After I cleared out the cache, now the warning is gone and I can see [APC] installed - All good ! Sorry for the confusions  
 

Thanks again ! 

Nathan, Is this accelerator aleady built in when hosted with Zarconia or does it need adding to our own files?

TIA

Ed

These are questions that should be sent to us directly from our client area. But for shared, our newest servers run PHP 5.5 with OPCache and APCu. This will roll out soon to the default PHP build on other servers, or can be done now with the PHP Selector in cPanel. For dedicated servers, OPCache and APCu are installed on recent setups, while APC is available on older setups. If OPCache is available but not APCu, or to switch to a newer PHP build with both, open a ticket with us, and we'll make the needed changes.