Stability

jascomp

I've seen alot of posts regarding PHP on IIS stability. Some people claim that it is very stable. Other's claim that only certain types of operations are unstable. Still, others claim that it is not at all suitable for production apps. Is PHP on IIS stable enough for production use? What is the difference between CGI and ISAPI mode. Which is better? Should I use an external applications such as Zend WinEnabler or FastCGI?

poison

sorry, a short version

Is PHP on IIS stable enough for production use

according to zend, and logic, no.

What is the difference between CGI and ISAPI mode

CGI -> the PHP CGI binary gets loaded and initialized every time a PHP script gets executed. this means your server will be put on heavy load. when running as CGI PHP also inherits all the mad unsecurity from BlueScreen OS. ISAPI means that it gets 'loaded into' the server as a module and only needs to be initialized once. one problem with this is that Internet InSecurity is a mutithreaded server, and PHP is not threadsafe since it was designed for *nix envoironments, where a new process gets forked instead of creating a new thread. your server is going to crash even more often...

Should I use an external applications such as Zend WinEnabler or FastCGI?

sorry...don't have an answer for that one...

jascomp

Is is possible to create a stable environment using Windows w/Apache and PHP?

poison

parsing question:
is it possible to create a stable envoironment on top of a layer which itself isn't stable ?

jascomp

I understand what your are saying so I'll rephrase. Is it possible to create a PHP app deployed on a Windows 2000 server w/Apache, that is stable enough for a small to medium sized business. I'm not looking for rock solid just a decent mix of performance and ease of development that doesn't require me to reboot my webserver every 10 minutes.

laserlight

I would say that yes, Win 2K should be stable enough (if barely), and secure enough (again, barely) if you know how to secure it.

Still, it would be better to simply go for a Unix-like system such as Linux.