Re: PHP, large content website performance

Hi Doug,

Yahoo Finance and AllTheWeb.com are among the biggest users of PHP. As to
info on PHP performance, in general PHP is fast enough for most web
applications. The best method to measure speed is to write some simple
benchmarks that suit the characteristics of your web site, as everyone's
hardware and networks are different.

Regards, John

"Doug Farrell" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I work for a large publisher that has a pretty big presense on the web,
> putting up some of their larger reference titles as subscription websites,
> mostly to schools and libraries. I work as one of the software engineers
on
> these projects. Right now we use C++ to generate all our dynamic content
as
> CGI programs on Sun platforms. I find this to be overkill and we are
> considering moving to a Linux based platform, and I would also like to use
> PHP for our dynamic website development. However, I have to convince some
> people in the organization that PHP is up to the task and has the
> performance and stability for what we need. So, to that end I'm looking
for
> some feedback from the group in two areas.
>
> 1)  Where can I find some information on PHP's performance, both
qualitative
> and quantative?
>
> 2)  Where can I find some information (and sites) that provide a lot of
> dynamic content linked together?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
> Doug Farrell
>
>