Standalone preforking PHP application server framework

August 18th, 2009 by Boštjan Škufca

What a lenghty title! But it does characterize well the thing I have been working on a couple of nights.
The idea consists of these basic prerequisites:
- sometimes I need to create small application that is not a standard web application,
- it could be necessary that it it running as root/other privileged user,
- it probably receives [...]


eAccelerator vs APC on PHP 5.2.9

July 7th, 2009 by Boštjan Škufca

There is a single question to be answered: how does APC perform in comparison to eAccelerator on PHP 5.2.9?


Apache + mod_php compared to Nginx + php-fpm

June 24th, 2009 by Boštjan Škufca

Recently I received an email pointing me to this article and with a request that I conduct a test of Nginx, which should supposedly be a better web serving application. But in previously mentioned article they state they are getting over a 500% more from the same hardware with a new piece of software, is still awesome. From the experience I know that with such claims, one must utilise some healthy skepticism.