re: FastCGI and Zend Core 2.0

Bill C — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:01:44 GMT

Quote: Combined, these solutions provide a 200-300% performance improvement for PHP on Windows offering comparable performance to PHP on Linux.

That's an interesting claim. Would you be willing to post specs on the machines and version of Linux used? Was this a tweaked version of windows (Zend Core)? What tweaks were made to the Linux Machine (if any)? What other software was being used? Such as MySql? or MSSql? What php pages were being served? Did you use a portal software package? Such as WordPress or XoopsCube? What method did you use to determine this to be a 200 - 300% improvement? What other software was running on the machines? DHCP? DNS (named)? Squid? WinS? Samba Print/Filesharing ON or OFF? WAP/Firewall/anti-virus/gateway - yes or no? Mail server - yes or no? If yes, explain which versions on each machine. Server stress load, for example, how many pages served per hour by each machine, and what was the average page load time? Was Intrusion detection/Prevention running on each machine? If so was it successful in thwarting attacks? Or did you even try hitting it hard (ie brute force attacks - simulated of course). Which remote 'admin' access software was being used to administrate these machines? Were Java based, php based, SSH/CLI admin installed and useable?

It's one thing to make a claim, another thing to provide supporting data.

Core

Port 25 — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:26:49 GMT

We recently announced the addition of IIS7 to the Server Core installation of Windows Server 2008 (formerly known as Longhorn Server). Server Core is an important evolution of our server product and will include a variety of roles, such as print server,

re: FastCGI and Zend Core 2.0

davidmeyer — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:17:18 GMT

This is good news. I have been looking for a reason to migrate to Windows 2003 for streaming media on one of my servers. Since I use Mambo, a PHP-based system, this will allow me to do both, and experience the benefits of both!