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PHP Optimized for Windows Server 2008

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dogs-and-cats-living-together dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "It used to be that popular PHP applications would run more poorly on Windows Server than on a Linux or Unix servers, for which PHP had been optimized. Specialist in the PHP language Zend Technologies now says that's no longer the case. The Zend Core commercially supported form of PHP has been certified by Microsoft as ready to run 'with performance and stability' on Windows Server 2008, said Andi Gutmans, co-founder and CTO of Zend. Previously, PHP 'didn't run as well as it should on Windows,' said Gutmans, despite the fact that 75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations."

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  1. In Short by TheRealMindChild · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, in short, they aren't using cygwin anymore to compile it.

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  2. Misleading by MojoRilla · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This is misleading.

    75% to 80% of PHP users were developing on Windows workstations.
    And how many of these applications are being deployed on Windows? Probably not that many. Windows isn't a great server operating system.
    1. Re:Misleading by jsebrech · · Score: 4, Insightful

      And how many of these applications are being deployed on Windows?

      My company's PHP based software runs over 95 percent on IIS servers. We have a single customer that uses linux for their web server platform (a university). We're talking about big customers here, like Siemens and ISS (one of the world's largest cleaning firms), with dozens of servers each running our platform, all of them Windows servers.

      We've been deploying PHP on fastcgi the whole time. ISAPI has never been stable, and CGI has always been too slow.

      Tthe situation changes for non-intranet web apps. Those tend to be linux-hosted because people tend to outsource their hosting. But for in-house hosted software, most of the time you have to fall back on the existing network team, who is usually specialized in windows, so they tend to prefer windows-based web servers, even if it's just for the sake of uniformity.

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  4. PHP on Windows by corychristison · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... like Ruby on Rails?

    Just kidding. Seriously, though, it said "commercially supported form of PHP". Be sure to take a big mental note of that.
    Commercial == fee's. Based on Zends track record of charging for things, it's not going to be cheap for single developers... I have a feeling it'll be in the area of $800-$1500 per CPU or something silly like that... in which case, why not just use a UNIX/derivative?

  5. Why not Apache? by edmicman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We run a .NET shop here, but even I wonder, why not just install Apache on Windows? Errrrr, or why not just go the easy route and put up an Ubuntu LAMP server? Everything I work on is in Windows, but I just don't see the benefit of running PHP on Windows...what does [Microsoft say] the Windows platform offers for PHP that running it on freely available platforms doesn't?