Enable and use php opcache.

While APC was the one of most used php cache from version 5.4 PHP has a built opcode cache. Without this type of caching every user "hit" invoke runtime compiler which is generate intermediate code and then execute it. The role of cache engine is to generate and save intermediate code into shared memory. In fact we don't need to generate same and same intermediate code if it's not changed from last execution. Using a opcache will cause dramatic performance speedup and will reduce memory consumption on server side.
For using builtin opcache in php we must edit

php.ini

file and remove some comments like this:

[opcache]
opcache.enable=1
opcache.enable_cli=0
opcache.memory_consumption=64
opcache.max_accelerated_files=2000
opcache.validate_timestamps=1
opcache.revalidate_freq=0
opcache.save_comments=0
opcache.load_comments=0
opcache.fast_shutdown=1

and after that just restart php5-fpm process for nginx servers or if you are using apache2 restart apache server:

service php5-fpm restart

That is :)
You can check if it's enabled by typing

php -v

and result must be like:

root@eureka:~# php -v
PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.4 (cli) (built: Sep  4 2014 06:56:34)
Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.5.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies
with Zend OPcache v7.0.3, Copyright (c) 1999-2014, by Zend Technologies

If you want to watch simple stats about opcache you can check this script https://github.com/rlerdorf/opcache-status/blob/master/opcache.php
For more information about opcache visit https://wiki.php.net/rfc/optimizerplus

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