title: Symfony2 on shared hosting without APC - so slow
body: <p>My symfony2/doctrine2 site is ready for production so I uploaded it to my shared (TSOHost) cloud server. They dont have APC activated and the site is super slow.</p>
  
  <p>On my local env, pages take ~180ms to load with APC enabled and that doubles when I disable APC.</p>
  
  <p>On the shared host the same pages take ~2 seconds to load and often hangs completely. My product listing page sometimes takes >30 seconds for the ajax request to load all the products!</p>
  
  <p>It feels like doctrine is especially struggling.</p>
  
  <p>My host can only suggest I move to a dedicated virtual server, which is obviously more expensive, but I dont want to do that unless I can be sure its going to resolve the problem.</p>
  
  <p>Is this down to the lack of APC? Do I have any alternatives to APC?</p>