Torgny Bjers schrieb:
> I am assuming they're running PHP through CGI in this case, am I
> correct, or are they hosting on Windows to achieve the multiple PHP
> versions? If CGI, that rather affects performance of larger
> applications, it especially impact render time of more complex templates
> and forms. During my own testing we gained lots of time by just running
> it as a compiled Apache module instead of through CGI and in .htaccess.
Well, I guess you are right. One can compile multiple versions of PHP to
run as Apache module in parallel by changing the sources (one has to
change some symbol names) but I think Strato didn't do that since most
shared hosting services run PHP as CGI anway for security reasons.
Also, I think writing applications with high performance requirements
somewhat contradicts deploying them on shared hosts. If you need
performance: Get a dedicated server and - if you want - even compile yer
own hand-optimized PHP.
And: Clever development circumvents the CGI bottleneck. Developing is
absolutely no problem under CGI since it's done by just a few users and
here the flexibility of multiple version kicks in: You can freely
choose! For the production version you simply use a good userland cache
that minimizes the work done by PHP.
AllOLLi
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