Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Arno Welzel Newsgroups: comp.lang.php Subject: Re: Why PHP? Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 19:43:19 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: <513CD447.4050007@arnowelzel.de> References: <17a9677a-3785-4b5f-a4cf-e78ffd5191a1@googlegroups.com> <513CAA86.5040606@arnowelzel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e8b13b93efe0c0294fd20051bd32ed64"; logging-data="1934"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19zfynzwBrHyqvAHqGLmvc/tsoT2IVgnLs=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:vGdMjOZwUGJmIDRBvSwiblh5sKo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.php:8628 The Natural Philosopher, 2013-03-10 17:54: > On 10/03/13 15:45, Arno Welzel wrote: >> Robert Heller, 2013-03-08 20:53: [...] >>> Well Facebook is certainly an enterprise operation and is very >>> profitable, which suggest that PHP is not a "toy". Facebook has a huge >>> user base and seems to manage quite well. This suggests that LAMP >>> servers scale well. >> >> Well - Facebook has enough money to run *many* servers. I think in this >> case it is nearly irrelevant if they use PHP, C# or whatever - as long >> as the backend (database, storage etc.) is capable of handling the load. >> >> > The American solution. Throw money and hardware at sub standard software > ? :-) Propably - yes ;-) Anyway - i spend a while to get my own PHP installation on to perform the way it does. "Out of the box" PHP is neither "fast" nor "scalable". -- Arno Welzel http://arnowelzel.de http://de-rec-fahrrad.de