Re: phpng: Refactored PHP Engine with Big Performance Improvement

On May 8, 2014, at 5:46 AM, Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> wrote: >> >> For what it’s worth I don’t think we should stop supporting mod_php at this point in >> time. >> I think there are still plenty of situations where this is the easier, simpler route to go >> and quite robust. > > Such as? > > FastCGI (or fpm) is just as robust, it's a lot more scalable and has mostly just > advantages. The main thing mod_php has going for it is history. There are no real technological > advances and the rise of PHP on nginx can attest to that. There are tools and know-how out there on configuring various aspects of PHP through http.conf/.htaccess. Sure you can achieve most of that via FastCGI but I do not believe it’s as simple and straightforward and I still believe the majority of the PHP community is using mod_php. Re: nginx, the reality is, that while popular, it’s still not being used in the majority of environments. It’s being used more on the big, scale-out properties than on the massive of smaller PHP deployments. I guess we’ll need to agree to disagree on this one :) Andi