Posted by Rasmus Lerdorf on 01/05/05 14:58

Lester Caine wrote:
> Sebastian wrote:
>> I know everything has cons/pros but i am just looking for advice on
>> whether
>> my site will benifit from the upgrade. I'm curious to know if a site that
>> normally sees 300-500 users online would see any improvements.
>
> That would be nice information to find out, but does not seem to be
> available.

If you are serving up a lot of static file, you will see an improvement.
If it is all dynamic PHP requests, then you won't. Apache really
doesn't have much to do on a PHP request so all the performance depends
on the speed of PHP, not Apache. There are a few places where Apache2
has improved things for a PHP request, but these tend to be countered by
a few places where things have gotten ore expensive. Every benchmark I
have done puts PHP under Apache2 right in the same ballpark as PHP under
Apache1 with Apache1 usually a little bit ahead. But do your own
testing on your own platform. Other peoples' benchmarks are meaningless.

-Rasmus

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