Alternatvie PHP cache, turck MMcache, eAccelerator, Zend Encoder / Optimizer / Platform

Well zend optimizer is free right, but you need to first encode it, which isn't free i gather... and platfrom costs money, lots of money too.

APC looks very good, eAccelerator looks ok, and turckMMcache looks ok too.

But turckMMcache looks old and outdated, the PHP versions that they talk about, i am at site5 which use php4.4.0, and eAccelerator seemed a bit unlikely too still being in beta and all, not exactly comforting for a production website.

So APC looks like the best choice for me. Either way if anyone does decide to use a chache / optimizer, it is quite irrelevant which one they choose as all will work for DF or any php equally as well right?

Hmm I'm interested in this because I'm also on site5. let me know how it goes.

BCompiler could be probalby a good and 'universal' choise

i don't have dedicated hosting. would that be required to run an accelerator?

bcompiler is, as it says, a bytecode compiler.
Bytecode is the structure PHP uses for files in pre-processing and they are bigger, so when you bcompile your files they will take up a lot more space then normal php files.
When a file is bigger it will take much longer to load them since a harddrive is one of slowest components in a machine. The benefit is that PHP doesn't have to compile it since it's already compiled. Count the times for reading and compiling and you will see bcompiled files are around 30% faster.

bcompiler also has disadvantages like bzipping the files and it doesn't work 100% yet.
php.net/bcompiler

My expierence lies with turck MMcache & eAccelerator. I used Turck with my PHP 4.3.X sites but dev stopped on it and branched into eAccelerator. I currently am using eAccelerator on a PHP 5 box and a PHP 4 box. Both run great. I am 100% happy with them but upgrading PHP with them is a bit tricky if you don't know what you're doing and you can cause some major memory issues. There is an excellant tutorial on them over at vBulletin. I was running them on Fedora Core 2 but had some issues and switch to Core 1 and everything was great. I'm not 100% sure it was a Core 2 issue but am pretty sure.

I have been 100% happy with it.

Were using eAccelerator on Debian stable, worked real well then installed another gig of memory now she's looking for something to do.

Load times greatly reduced along with server load, a very happy camper here

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Alternatvie PHP cache, turck MMcache, eAccelerator, Zend Encoder / Optimizer / Platform Well zend optimizer is free right, but you need to first encode it, which isn't free i gather... and platfrom costs money, lots of money too.

Grab the zend Optimizer for wamp here ..it flys

wamp is real nice imho. ..of course its only win

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of course its only win

i haven't even touched a windoze pc for over a year, except at uni where they seem to think that you need to pay money for windows just to do online research and write text documents... and i thought that people at university were meant to be smart. Guess i was wrong.

Anyway i appreciate the link but my pc has no where near enough bandwidth to be a server, and the only paid for hosting that i have are at site5 and they have massively-loaded shared hosting, running (fast)CGI so i can't run php accelerators there.

When i get a job i'll purchase a dedicated server and then i'll probably just use eaccelerator.

Well thanks for your input anyway.

i like the zend