IIS vs Apache
- From: philthathril@xxxxxxxxx ("Philip Thompson")
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:10:10 -0500
From this article <http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2007/05/07/iis-vs-apache.aspx> written in
May of this year, the author makes this comment about IIS and PHP:
[snippet]
"If you're worried about IIS performance and reliability when running PHP
vs. running on Apache, you're concerns are definitely valid. Up until
recently there were only two ways to run PHP: the slow way (CGI), and the
unreliable way (ISAPI). :) This is primarily a result of the lack of
thread-safety in some PHP extensions - they were originally written for the
pre-fork Linux/Apache environment which is not multi-threaded. Running them
on IIS with the PHP ISAPI causes them to crash, and take out the IIS process
serving your application.
"Fortunately, the Microsoft / Zend partnership has brought about fixes to
these issues with many performance and compatibility fixes by Zend, and a
FastCGI feature for IIS which enables fast, reliable PHP hosting. FastCGI
is available now in Tech Preview form, and has also been included in Windows
Server "Longhorn" Beta 3. It will be included in Vista SP1 and Longhorn
Server at RTM."
[/snippet]
This author (employed my M$) even says that PHP ISAPI can cause IIS to
crash. Am I taking the one-liner out of context? Does this happen often?
What are the conditions in which it would cause it to crash?
What I am currently doing is some research to see if we want to move our web
server from IIS 6 to Apache 2. We will still be running on a Windows 2k3
server. So, I wanted to query the list and see what you have to say about
using IIS or Apache on a Windows server - we are a Windows environment (my
hands are tied there =). Our development language is only PHP at this point.
We are currently using MySQL, but my supervisor is considering moving to MS
SQL Server (blegh!) - any issues with Apache there?
Thanks in advance,
~Philip
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