Re: Performance: PHP vs. Visual Basic

Much as I don't like to defend MS, I'll take a stab here. By 40-50 people in an office, I presume you're talking about an intranet of some type - 40-50 aren't constantly hitting it (meaning 40-50 requests per second all the time), but 40-50 are using it throughout the day for various tasks. You don't give the machine specs, but I'd hazard to say, if it's moderate equipment, that there's some DB optimization (or VB optimization) that could be done. 40 people lightly hitting a machine shouldn't cause much of a problem regardless of language used, unless there's some extremely bad coding going on. Are you closing DB connections? Are you avoiding putting objects in session and/or application scope? Are the DB queries optimized properly (proper indices on tables, etc)? Those are just a few things I'd look for. Yeah it'd be great to have you switch to PHP, but some optimization issues are universal, and if it's written poorly in one language, chances are it'll be written poorly in another. Regardless of this, we still recommened PHP to most clients because of the cost issue as well. However, since you've already paid for this software you're running (right?) it's probably worth it to take a while to optimize what you've got first. -------------------- Michael Kimsal http://www.tapinternet.com 734-480-9961 On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Masami Kawakami wrote: > Maybe this is one of FAQ, Please give me a URL of this kind of comparison > page, or your experience. > > A web server program is running in my office. It consists of Visual > Basic, IIS, and MS SQL Server on Windows 2000. although the performance > is confortable for few users, it is terribly slow for 40-50 users. Once > all of them start to use, it takes more than 20 seconds to open a page > in client browser. > > To improve the performance, we have an idea to use, instead of Microsoft, > PHP, Apache, and mySQL/ProgreSQL on Linux. How much will be the > improvement? > > We also have plan to enhance the hardware, 1PC for DataBase, 2nd and 3rd > for IIS or Apaches. Which has better scalability, VB or PHP? > > > > -- > Masami Kawakami <mkwkm@worldnet.att.net> > > > -- > 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 >