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Zend Server CE as a Drupal development environment on Windows
I'm now using Zend Server CE as my Drupal development environment on Windows. Previously, I used the WAMP package and was very satisfied with it due to its flexibility and stability. However, I noticed that recent projects began to get slower and slower. They had many modules enabled so by the completion time, they began to feel like real CPU eating monsters.
(Details: I have a Core 2 Duo 3GHz with 4GB RAM – should be more than enough for a Drupal site, even a heavy one. PHP opcaches didn't help much.)
It was time to try something new – Zend
Server Community Edition http://www.zend.com/en/products/server-ce/ – the platform from the mother of PHP…
Amazing! The project's home page (development, so caching off) load time was reduced from 12 seconds (WAMP) to less than 3 seconds (Zend Sever)!
I would agree that the php.ini setting can make a difference, but not 4 times… What really does the trick are two Zend Server components – Zend Data Cache and Zend Optimizer+. It's also running PHP in Fast CGI mode, which is not a trivial task to set-up with bare bone Apache and PHP on Windows.
Give it a try, see the difference and let us know what you think. Best of all, it's free! ;)
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Thanks!
Fri, 11/18/2011 - 02:39.
ut it seems that this should not be too difficult to understand. Of course, I do not want it as my main source of PHP, but sometimes when I'm away from home, I take care of it with PHP.
Mon, 10/11/2010 - 10:12.
This looks super sufficient, but I'm looking for a Droid PHP application that won't bog down on me in the middle of a project. I don't know too much about Mobile Analytics, but it seems like it shouldn't be too hard to figure out. I of course wouldn't want it as my main source of PHP, but sometimes when I'm out and about I would like to occupy myself with PHP.
Wed, 10/06/2010 - 23:48.
@Kevin - Thanks for the Acquia whitepaper. Im trying it now and lets see if somehow it does increase the performance of Drupal running on Zend Server.
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Sat, 04/17/2010 - 12:14.
Kevin thanks for that additional link, it was very helpful.
Thu, 02/18/2010 - 07:56.
Hey, glad to see such large performance gains. I don't know if you have seen it, but we (Zend) actually did a whitepaper with Acquia on how to increase performance with Drupal on Zend Server. If you'd like to see it you can get it here: http://www.zend.com/en/resources/white-papers/.