Faster PHP on Win2k3
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I'm sure this has been discussed but if so I missed it...just curious if there are any PHP developers that can tell me how slow their stuff ran on Win2k3 & PHP 4/5 as compared to a Linux server? Microsoft is partnering with Zend to increase the PHP execution in IIS 7 by 25 times apparently, I have a ton of apps I manage on Windows/PHP that run Opensource phpBB2 & OSCommerce. If it's true then I am very interested to see the performance benefit, because they don't really seem slow right now...are they making PHP out to be a great deal faster than .Net apps on the same server? Hmmm...
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i know that we run a website that serves over a TB of video data per day to over 200k unique users serving up over 400k complex pages that are heavily database oriented all this runs on 3 linux/apache/mysql/php boxes ... one database server one video server and one web server if thats any idea of performance you can get from php on linux
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I'm sure this has been discussed but if so I missed it...just curious if there are any PHP developers that can tell me how slow their stuff ran on Win2k3 & PHP 4/5 as compared to a Linux server? Microsoft is partnering with Zend to increase the PHP execution in IIS 7 by 25 times apparently, I have a ton of apps I manage on Windows/PHP that run Opensource phpBB2 & OSCommerce. If it's true then I am very interested to see the performance benefit, because they don't really seem slow right now...are they making PHP out to be a great deal faster than .Net apps on the same server? Hmmm...
if (!interested){return false;} amclint
My understanding of this is the 25x thing was supposed to be for the CGI version of PHP because MS is revamping (supposedly) how CGI works in IIS7.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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i know that we run a website that serves over a TB of video data per day to over 200k unique users serving up over 400k complex pages that are heavily database oriented all this runs on 3 linux/apache/mysql/php boxes ... one database server one video server and one web server if thats any idea of performance you can get from php on linux
"there is no spoon"
{some projects} {about me}l a u r e n wrote:
if thats any idea of performance you can get from php on linux
What sad is I said PHP was fast the other day, and of course (as expected on CP) I get a laugh for a response. Just goes to show how people that don't know much about a system/environment, etc. still love to cast their judgments on it.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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i know that we run a website that serves over a TB of video data per day to over 200k unique users serving up over 400k complex pages that are heavily database oriented all this runs on 3 linux/apache/mysql/php boxes ... one database server one video server and one web server if thats any idea of performance you can get from php on linux
"there is no spoon"
{some projects} {about me}l a u r e n wrote:
a website that serves over a TB of video data per day to over 200k unique users serving up over 400k complex pages that are heavily database oriented
Cool. What hardware are these servers equipped with?
Farhan Noor Qureshi
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i know that we run a website that serves over a TB of video data per day to over 200k unique users serving up over 400k complex pages that are heavily database oriented all this runs on 3 linux/apache/mysql/php boxes ... one database server one video server and one web server if thats any idea of performance you can get from php on linux
"there is no spoon"
{some projects} {about me}1000gb of video a day? What are you youtube ;) anyway, none of what you said matters for this topic...which was how fast php is on windows compared to linux and how MS is going to improve something that doesn't even seem slow I had to load balance a website that got featured on Oprah, 10 win2k3 servers clustered and we could have used a few more....but I'm sure there are others on here that have super high traffic stories ;)
if (!interested){return false;} amclint
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My understanding of this is the 25x thing was supposed to be for the CGI version of PHP because MS is revamping (supposedly) how CGI works in IIS7.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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1000gb of video a day? What are you youtube ;) anyway, none of what you said matters for this topic...which was how fast php is on windows compared to linux and how MS is going to improve something that doesn't even seem slow I had to load balance a website that got featured on Oprah, 10 win2k3 servers clustered and we could have used a few more....but I'm sure there are others on here that have super high traffic stories ;)
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amclint wrote:
anyway, none of what you said matters for this topic...which was how fast php is on windows compared to linux and how MS is going to improve something that doesn't even seem slow
Personally, if MS and PHP do manage to get PHP running faster on Windows than Linux I'd be delighted because as sure as the sun rises in the east, the Linux folks will be working very hard to do the same for *nix. Seems like win-win to me.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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amclint wrote:
anyway, none of what you said matters for this topic...which was how fast php is on windows compared to linux and how MS is going to improve something that doesn't even seem slow
Personally, if MS and PHP do manage to get PHP running faster on Windows than Linux I'd be delighted because as sure as the sun rises in the east, the Linux folks will be working very hard to do the same for *nix. Seems like win-win to me.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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Actually, that makes sense...I never use the CGI interface because it sucks, I pretty much forgot it was there with the ISAPI extension.
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amclint wrote:
Actually, that makes sense...I never use the CGI interface because it sucks, I pretty much forgot it was there with the ISAPI extension.
On Windows, I typically do, but for development only. I find it easier to swap in and out different versions of PHP that way, and it's just what I've gotten used to over the years. Using it for a production server however, is asking for a nightmare. But, maybe things will change with IIS7.
Jeremy Falcon A multithreaded, OpenGL-enabled application.[^]
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l a u r e n wrote:
a website that serves over a TB of video data per day to over 200k unique users serving up over 400k complex pages that are heavily database oriented
Cool. What hardware are these servers equipped with?
Farhan Noor Qureshi
just regular pentium 4's i think ... web server has 6gb ram ... db has 2gb and video has 4gb ... all run debian nothing special really
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1000gb of video a day? What are you youtube ;) anyway, none of what you said matters for this topic...which was how fast php is on windows compared to linux and how MS is going to improve something that doesn't even seem slow I had to load balance a website that got featured on Oprah, 10 win2k3 servers clustered and we could have used a few more....but I'm sure there are others on here that have super high traffic stories ;)
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amclint wrote:
10 win2k3 servers clustered and we could have used a few more
What did you have 10 million users a day? Sites that I worked on back in '98 used something like 6 NT 4.0 servers to handle 1.5 million users a day and we could have easily gone down to 3 without a problem.
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amclint wrote:
10 win2k3 servers clustered and we could have used a few more
What did you have 10 million users a day? Sites that I worked on back in '98 used something like 6 NT 4.0 servers to handle 1.5 million users a day and we could have easily gone down to 3 without a problem.
Using the GridView is like trying to explain to someone else how to move a third person's hands in order to tie your shoelaces for you. -Chris Maunder
The traffic was within a 4-6hr window during the Oprah show and then on a re-run show 4-5 weeks later. Cumulative hits I don't remember but unique visitors was insane, I'll find out how many it was, this was christmas 2005. Also, it was pretty last minute...so the hardware I had on hand was for base dedicated server customers (amd 3200+ I think) and raid mirrored SATA drives. Not the fastest boxes out there, but good for at least 1000/1500 connections a second.
if (!interested){return false;} amclint
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I'm sure this has been discussed but if so I missed it...just curious if there are any PHP developers that can tell me how slow their stuff ran on Win2k3 & PHP 4/5 as compared to a Linux server? Microsoft is partnering with Zend to increase the PHP execution in IIS 7 by 25 times apparently, I have a ton of apps I manage on Windows/PHP that run Opensource phpBB2 & OSCommerce. If it's true then I am very interested to see the performance benefit, because they don't really seem slow right now...are they making PHP out to be a great deal faster than .Net apps on the same server? Hmmm...
if (!interested){return false;} amclint
PHP can run faster on Windows if it is compiled to .NET :-). Take a look at the Phalanger[^] project. The PhpBB for example works very well. I'm (probably) not objective, because I recently became project administrator for Phalanger (after original authors were hired by Microsoft) and I don't have any statistics that compare Phalanger&IIS with PHP&IIS 7 (you can find some older stats at http://php-compiler.net[^]), but we will try it :-). Anyway Running PHP on .NET has many other interesting advantages - I'm going to write some articles about it soon.
Tomas Petricek, C# MVP
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I'm sure this has been discussed but if so I missed it...just curious if there are any PHP developers that can tell me how slow their stuff ran on Win2k3 & PHP 4/5 as compared to a Linux server? Microsoft is partnering with Zend to increase the PHP execution in IIS 7 by 25 times apparently, I have a ton of apps I manage on Windows/PHP that run Opensource phpBB2 & OSCommerce. If it's true then I am very interested to see the performance benefit, because they don't really seem slow right now...are they making PHP out to be a great deal faster than .Net apps on the same server? Hmmm...
if (!interested){return false;} amclint
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/10/31/PHP-and-the-FastCGI-Module-for-IIS-7.0.aspx[^]
Found on Bash.org [erno] hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
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PHP can run faster on Windows if it is compiled to .NET :-). Take a look at the Phalanger[^] project. The PhpBB for example works very well. I'm (probably) not objective, because I recently became project administrator for Phalanger (after original authors were hired by Microsoft) and I don't have any statistics that compare Phalanger&IIS with PHP&IIS 7 (you can find some older stats at http://php-compiler.net[^]), but we will try it :-). Anyway Running PHP on .NET has many other interesting advantages - I'm going to write some articles about it soon.
Tomas Petricek, C# MVP
Tomasp.net | My Photos | My Blog (C# 3, LINQ, F# etc..)