I run a few sites (all Drupal sites ;-) ) under mod_php and other under FastCGI. I try my sites using mod_php until I have a reliability problem. From what I understand this problem is not EA specific but related to the stack Apache+PHP+windows.
Running under mod_php with EA will be the perfect performance boost (kinda php become html pages).
The nice thing about Apache under Windows versus IIS is you can run multiple instances without any issue. So you could configure a second Apache running PHP under FastCGI and switch over any site with some traffic. FACTCGI basically recycle your Apache+PHP instance and provide for a very stable stack. Everytime it recycles, your EA cache is cleared...but since these are sites with some traffic the cache is recreated "quickly".
Another idea (still waiting for the time to test) is to run IIS + PHP + EA and use Apache has some proxy server to IIS. I've been running IIS 4.x 5.x + PHP (4.x) + EA since years and never had a stability issues.
Joined: 2006-01-02
Hi Halfer,
I run a few sites (all Drupal sites ;-) ) under mod_php and other under FastCGI. I try my sites using mod_php until I have a reliability problem. From what I understand this problem is not EA specific but related to the stack Apache+PHP+windows.
Running under mod_php with EA will be the perfect performance boost (kinda php become html pages).
The nice thing about Apache under Windows versus IIS is you can run multiple instances without any issue. So you could configure a second Apache running PHP under FastCGI and switch over any site with some traffic. FACTCGI basically recycle your Apache+PHP instance and provide for a very stable stack. Everytime it recycles, your EA cache is cleared...but since these are sites with some traffic the cache is recreated "quickly".
Another idea (still waiting for the time to test) is to run IIS + PHP + EA and use Apache has some proxy server to IIS. I've been running IIS 4.x 5.x + PHP (4.x) + EA since years and never had a stability issues.
Cheers,
Chris