Re: [PHP4BETA] OK, be gentle... new user with questions

On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:12:56 +0200, gus wrote: >I was playing around with the PHP4 betas for about a year and since >two weeks I'm using it for a "serious" project using NT4, IIS4, MS >Index Server and PHP as CGI (not ISAPI). >My experience is that it is very stable and very fast. On my server >the CGI is as fast as my former ASP scripts and concerning >administration purposes on NT I thinks it's a lot better to deal with >CGIs (don't crash the whole server, kill a single process). I'll second that. We're about to launch a portal site[1] which uses PHP4 on W2k/IIS. The CGI version with the patch Zeev made to fix bug #3041 has been very stable. I'm seeing 2-4 hits per second (requiring 5-10 MySQL queries per page) on my wimpy little PII350/IDE desktop box. The real servers (IIS/PHP and MySQL each get their own dual-PIII boxes with a nice disk array) do rather better. (Of course, I also have a K6-450/IDE box running Linux/Apache which utterly crushes the NT boxen; such is the wonder known as mod_php) [1] Obviously, I can't identify the site yet but I'll post a notice when it launches. There's a lot of neat PHP4 work, too; I'm going to see if I have time to write some articles about it.