RE: [PHP] CF vs PHP Debacle

I found this pretty usefule as a comment, and agree to it in several aspects... We currently run a Metasearch engine, and we are running under RedHat 6.2 / PHP / MySQL / Apache. We get MySQL using pretty much all our CPU on several cases, what can be done for this? We have the following machine: Dual PIII 877 1GB RAM 3 36GB SCSI Drives (RAID5) We have purchased Solaris for Intel. Do you guys think it will be more stable? (We get some crashs when some process or another begins to eat up memort or cpu), and in general i believe that the system could be faster.... As for FreeBSD, is that like BSDi? Are you running the free version? Please give me a help if you can.... I had some problems compiling PHP 4.0.3pl1 on the Solaris/Intel, any known problems? Thks... I am sorry this has turned into more of an OS discussion, but it is important since our site runs off 95% Heavyly dynamic pages.... > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Stump [mailto:joe@earth.care2.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 4:36 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] CF vs PHP Debacle > > > To all who hard code CFM - I'm sorry about my blanket > statement, I was going > off of the relationships I have with about 10 CFM coders who > all give me blank > stares when I ask them how to code something in CFM (usually > a response like > "Well you hit this button, etc"). > > One person said we should "expand our horizons", so to speak, > and use other > platforms. I personally use the very best I can get. I don't > use NT for mainy > reasons - on being that NT has never been as stable as Linux > (in my experiences) > and I don't use Win9x for my workstation because it's less > stable than NT. > > I don't use CFM because it makes absolutely no sense to me - > It looks like HTML > with if/else statements. Also (correct me if I'm wrong) it's > written in PERL, > which is in turn written in C++ (as of the latest verison > AFAIK), which would > make CFM a 3rd generation language. On top of that you have > to run a seperate > service for CFM. PHP on the other hand is written in C and > thus a 2nd generation > language and is ran from within Apache - no seperate > processes (AFAIK). > > Now let's look at perl - good language, lots of people I know > use it - but it > wasn't designed from the ground up to be a web language like > PHP was. It > doesn't have striptags(), etc. built right in (like PHP). > Also, again from > my experience, mod_perl doesn't scale that well. > > Of course you could always use C, but I don't have months to > write a web app, > I have days (if I'm lucky and design/mgmt isn't in my way). > So I choose PHP - > it's light, extensible, easy to understand, and EXTREMELY > logical (when was > the last time you said "I wish PHP did this ..."??) > > Sure I'm die hard about PHP - because it does EVERYTHING I > need it to - from > large scale web apps to backing up my email via crontab (the > PHP binary rules!). > I'm also die hard about Linux - but I recently had to come to > the conclusion > that Linux wasn't as great as I thought it was - FreeBSD > serves web pages about > 10x faster (from our in house tests) than Linux and we won't > even compare our > old linux DB to our new Sun 420R running Solaris with MySQL! > If something comes > along that is better than PHP I'll switch - until then I > support Rasthmus and > everthing that PHP is about. > > --Joe > > ============================================================== > ================== > = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ============================================================================ ==== "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand." -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net