15020Tuning Apache and PHP for Speed on Unixhttp://phplens.com/phpeverywhere/tuning-apache-phpTo tune well, you need to benchmark your Web server. You can get some benchmark figures using ApacheBench (ab) or httperf. If you are an OS agnostic like me, I recommend using Microsoft's excellent free Web Application Stress Tool (WAST - requires M'soft Windows). WAST is more flexible than ab because it allows you to define different GET parameters for each thread. This is important because it allows you to simulate multiple PHP sessions via the PHPSESSID GET parameter. Avoid benchmarks involving PHP sessions when using ab as the sessions will become an artificial bottleneck. More info on using WAST with PHP.PHP > Magazine ArticlesOct 12, 2006
PHP is an open source programming language that is widely popular on the web. However because PHP so popular in shared hosting environments, many people have an impression that PHP is only for small scale web-sites. This is patently untrue, and PHP is in use in many large scale web sites such as Yahoo and Lufthansa Online Ticketing for the creation of large web applications such as IMP. This article is an attempt to readdress the balance and show how PHP is used in the enterprise
Apache is maintained by the Apache Software Foundation?s Apache Server Project at www.apache.org. The Apache Web server, for those of you who haven?t heard of it, is arguably the most popular Web server in use on the Internet today. While Microsoft contends that its Internet Information Server (IIS) is making huge gains, it?s still struggling in many ways against Apache. The reasons are not hard to seek. For starters, you don?t have to be running Windows to run Apache. It was first developed on the various Unix/Linux/BSD platforms, then recently ported to Win32. The IIS, while a good Web server on the NT platform, is trapped in the "Windows-only" world. While IIS has many handy features, not everyone wants to run NT for their Web server?s OS.
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Today we may assume with confidence that internet commercial activity cannot be considered as an outstanding step of a company that wishes to increase its market share by attracting new customers. Quite the contrary, in the modern world almost every company involved in sell/purchase activity yet lacking its virtual business representation, evokes a sincere perplexity. As a result, there are many IT companies offering their software products developed specially for e-business; but almost every software product has its own sticking points.
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