PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ...
Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think?
For nearly 2 years, we have been running a custom PHP application on Windows server 2012R2 connecting to a SQLServer database with no problems (except my programming mistakes of course). I personally prefer Linux, but that is a personal preference. At work, we are a Windows shop so Windows is what I use and so far, no problems. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 1:36 PM To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, For around 10 years I ran a very high traffic site on PHP with Windows (firstly with Apache but then with IIS). I got much better performance with IIS 7.5 and FastCGI with PHP 5.2 than I did with Apache, and it was easier to maintain from a security standpoint as well. I prefer running PHP on Linux, but that is mainly due to the security backporting that is done to keep packages secure with the distros. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 12 October 2015 20:36 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, For around 10 years I ran a very high traffic site on PHP with Windows (firstly with Apache but then with IIS). I got much better performance with IIS 7.5 and FastCGI with PHP 5.2 than I did with Apache, and it was easier to maintain from a security standpoint as well. I prefer running PHP on Linux, but that is mainly due to the security backporting that is done to keep packages secure with the distros. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 12 October 2015 20:36 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
I was looking at that, for I'm going to need to install the newest PHP version on IIS soon. Which one do I get? The thread-safe or non thread-safe? Running Wordpress. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:39 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hi, For around 10 years I ran a very high traffic site on PHP with Windows (firstly with Apache but then with IIS). I got much better performance with IIS 7.5 and FastCGI with PHP 5.2 than I did with Apache, and it was easier to maintain from a security standpoint as well. I prefer running PHP on Linux, but that is mainly due to the security backporting that is done to keep packages secure with the distros. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 12 October 2015 20:36 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, I always went with the thread-safe option. Note my knowledge is probably outdated as I used 5.2. and 5.3 with IIS, I have used later versions on Debian. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Katherine Moss [Katherine.Moss@gordon.edu] Sent: 12 October 2015 22:49 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... I was looking at that, for I'm going to need to install the newest PHP version on IIS soon. Which one do I get? The thread-safe or non thread-safe? Running Wordpress. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:39 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hi, For around 10 years I ran a very high traffic site on PHP with Windows (firstly with Apache but then with IIS). I got much better performance with IIS 7.5 and FastCGI with PHP 5.2 than I did with Apache, and it was easier to maintain from a security standpoint as well. I prefer running PHP on Linux, but that is mainly due to the security backporting that is done to keep packages secure with the distros. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 12 October 2015 20:36 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Hi, I always went with the thread-safe option. Note my knowledge is probably outdated as I used 5.2. and 5.3 with IIS, I have used later versions on Debian. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Katherine Moss [Katherine.Moss@gordon.edu] Sent: 12 October 2015 22:49 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... I was looking at that, for I'm going to need to install the newest PHP version on IIS soon. Which one do I get? The thread-safe or non thread-safe? Running Wordpress. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:39 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hi, For around 10 years I ran a very high traffic site on PHP with Windows (firstly with Apache but then with IIS). I got much better performance with IIS 7.5 and FastCGI with PHP 5.2 than I did with Apache, and it was easier to maintain from a security standpoint as well. I prefer running PHP on Linux, but that is mainly due to the security backporting that is done to keep packages secure with the distros. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 12 October 2015 20:36 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
I was looking at that, for I'm going to need to install the newest PHP version on IIS soon. Which one do I get? The thread-safe or non thread-safe? Running Wordpress. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 5:39 PM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hi, For around 10 years I ran a very high traffic site on PHP with Windows (firstly with Apache but then with IIS). I got much better performance with IIS 7.5 and FastCGI with PHP 5.2 than I did with Apache, and it was easier to maintain from a security standpoint as well. I prefer running PHP on Linux, but that is mainly due to the security backporting that is done to keep packages secure with the distros. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Katherine Moss Sent: 12 October 2015 20:36 To: 'blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org' <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] PHP on Windows Server: performance and research findings ... Hello all, As the subject implies, what experience do you guys have running PHP on Windows as oppose to that on linux? I've heard different things; some say Windows is better, while others say that they can't get the newest versions of PHP working on Windows because the nice installer's disappeared, hence causing many more mistake avenues. I'm running several community sites(along with a few business ones) with a friend of mine, and he won't have mission critical PHP applications running on Windows stating "catastrophic" things happening. The problem? He can't state any examples. Bias, do you think? _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
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