{"id":668,"date":"2006-01-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/01\/18\/606\/"},"modified":"2006-01-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T23:00:00","slug":"606","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/01\/18\/606\/","title":{"rendered":"The sysadmin view on \u201cWhy PHP\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Fuecks &#8211; [The sysadmin view on \u201cWhy PHP\u201d](http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/blogs\/2006\/01\/10\/the-sysadmin-view-on-why-php\/ &#8222;SitePoint Blogs &#8211; The sysadmin view on &#8222;Why PHP&#8220;&#8220;):<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;When was the last time you saw a PHP runtime error take down an entire application or web server? [&#8230;] With PHP it\u2019s very hard for a script to take down the runtime environment\u2014the web server\u2014I\u2019d argue that you\u2019d have to be deliberately trying to do so, perhaps filling up disk space or otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] It may now be reasonable to claim that Apache + mod_php has served more HTTP requests for dynamic pages than any other comparable environment. Despite warts and all, this is tested sortware simply by weight of numbers. That translates into a platform which costs little to keep running and less chance of a wakeup call at 2am.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway\u2014ran into an excellent blog recently: FastCGI, SCGI, and Apache: Background and Future discussing the options given new demand for FastCGI with frameworks like Rails, seen from the eyes of a sysadmin. To a great extent it also explains why we\u2019ve ended up with PHP.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry Fuecks &#8211; [The sysadmin view on \u201cWhy PHP\u201d](http:\/\/www.sitepoint.com\/blogs\/2006\/01\/10\/the-sysadmin-view-on-why-php\/ &#8222;SitePoint Blogs &#8211; The sysadmin view on &#8222;Why PHP&#8220;&#8220;): &#8222;When was the last time you saw a PHP runtime error take down an entire application or web server? [&#8230;] With PHP it\u2019s very hard for a script to take down the runtime environment\u2014the web server\u2014I\u2019d argue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}