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Today I went looking for a PHP Accelerator that worked with PHP5.
The previously most used and common accelerators, like Turck MMCache and ionCube PHP Accelerator, haven’t been updated for years and they therefore do not work correctly with PHP5. Turck produced some very strange and corrupt results on my PHP 5.0.3 installation.
So I found eAccelerator and was pleasantly surprised when it blessed Serendipity with a 330% speed increase. It seems to be well maintained, the last release was 2004/12/20, but perhaps also a little new.
Anyway, it looks promising.
eAccelerator is a fork of Turck MMCache seeing that Dmitry is working for Zend and is prob. not allowed to work on Turck MMCache anymore.
Yea, I read that.
Still Turck didn’t work with PHP5 – eAccelerator does, so while the difference between the two might not be that great, it’s good to see the project moving forward.
I just installed eAccelerator and it worked!
We have installed this on several dozen production web servers (CentOS and Fedora 1,2,3 machines mostly). It’s absolutely fantastic. We used to pay Zend for the license, and managing and installing the license files was a pain in the royal you know what.
We deal with a huge php CMS called eZ Publish, and this product has produced the best benchmarks we’ve seen so far of any accelerator (Zend Accelerator included!).
I can’t tell you how well this product works. It’s highly reccomended.
Haven’t gotten my hands on the “Zend Platform” yet, but it’ll be interesting to see if they have made headway in this direction like the open source project.
Kodos to the programmers behind it! This is fine work and a credit to open source!
Jonathan