PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008 182
Stony Stevenson writes "It used to be that popular PHP applications would run more poorly on Windows Server than on a Linux or Unix servers, for which PHP had been optimized. Specialist in the PHP language Zend Technologies now says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run 'with performance and stability' on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. Previously, PHP 'didn't run as well as it should on Windows,' said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations."
In Short (Score:5, Insightful)
Light on details (Score:2, Insightful)
Other incapatiblities (Score:3, Insightful)
Misleading (Score:5, Insightful)
Comment removed (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Marketing (Score:4, Insightful)
PHP on Windows (Score:5, Insightful)
Just kidding. Seriously, though, it said "commercially supported form of PHP". Be sure to take a big mental note of that.
Commercial == fee's. Based on Zends track record of charging for things, it's not going to be cheap for single developers... I have a feeling it'll be in the area of $800-$1500 per CPU or something silly like that [zend.com]... in which case, why not just use a UNIX/derivative?
Why not Apache? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:FastCGI != Apache Module (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Misleading (Score:2, Insightful)
Not for PHP applications, no. Good enough for light testing, but not production.
Re:Misleading (Score:3, Insightful)
well, unless those developers run windows 2008 server on their workstations.
Re:Misleading (Score:3, Insightful)
Only if you have problems reading English. That sentence clearly speaks about development, not deployment.
Re:Misleading (Score:5, Insightful)
My company's PHP based software runs over 95 percent on IIS servers. We have a single customer that uses linux for their web server platform (a university). We're talking about big customers here, like Siemens and ISS (one of the world's largest cleaning firms), with dozens of servers each running our platform, all of them Windows servers.
We've been deploying PHP on fastcgi the whole time. ISAPI has never been stable, and CGI has always been too slow.
Tthe situation changes for non-intranet web apps. Those tend to be linux-hosted because people tend to outsource their hosting. But for in-house hosted software, most of the time you have to fall back on the existing network team, who is usually specialized in windows, so they tend to prefer windows-based web servers, even if it's just for the sake of uniformity.