Zend Server 5.0 released

March 3rd, 2010 by Xavier Perez 
Zend server 5.0 have been released, and bring the opportinuty to try&by or download the Zend Server Comunity Edition. Zend Server Community Edition is a pre-integrated PHP application stack that’s been tested by Zend to ensure the highest levels of reliability. You can use it to run your application in production, during development and testing, ensuring a consistent environment throughout...

PHP Scalability – Part2

March 3rd, 2010 by Xavier Perez 
Apache servers with PHP as a module, expends a lot of memory and resources on each process, and it’s not intended to serve static pages. Also, PHP cache, as memcached, cacheLite, and other cache systems can be an important aid to lighten apache process, but still are huge. Here comes APC, an opcode cache, that can be one of the best part of my own tests, achieving a 100% better performance on...

PHP Scalability – Part1

March 1st, 2010 by Xavier Perez 
In the last years, PHP have been taken part of the market to other technologies, as .NET and Java, but till now, have been declared ‘non scalable’, thus it’s owns limitations, the absence of a ‘distributted services’ concept. PHP it’s a language, and Apache have been the server over the years. A lot of web sites, takes the important decision to buy more hardware,...