Re: Apache to serve RESTful requests using PHP

Bastien Koert On 2013-02-09, at 11:42 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami <behzad.eslami@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list, > > We're a developing a PHP-driven web service with a RESTful API, > and we have a dedicated Linux server for that with 6GB of RAM. > > Since this service will be used by many clients in a concurrent > manner, we'll face with a high-load on our web-server. But > web-services are different from web pages, for instance they > don't include images, or in this case we only serve JSON. > > I'm wondering what are the recommended configurations for > the Apache web-server in these situations? Should we disable > keep-avlie? What about other directives? Apache is our > bottleneck, and we're trying to optimize it. Should we use nginx instead? > > Please let me know your suggestions. > > Thank you, > -behzad How much of that data is cachable? You're likely to get bigger performance gains from caching frequent data. Keep-alive at maybe 1 second. But would need to know more about the app to be able to suggest more Bastien