If you took everything you heard for granted, you’d have been lead to believe that the official PHP distributions (from php.net) have been thread-safe since version 5.2.0.
That’s not true. Don’t fall for it. Don’t attempt to use PHP in a multi-threaded environment (mpm_worker on Apache, ISAPI on IIS, etc.), because PHP thread-safety is a myth.. [...]
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Don’t Believe The Lies: PHP Isn’t Thread-Safe Yet
Published by January 18th, 2008 in Programming, Software 7 CommentsMicrosoft FastCGI Updated - But Should You Upgrade?
Published by November 15th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software, Windows 2 CommentsWe previously covered the final release of the IIS FastCGI module, jointly developed between Microsoft and Zend… But just this week, Microsoft [[MSFT]] announced the availability of the RTM of the IIS FastCGI module.
So what’s going on? We’ve downloaded the current release (which, by the way, is not compatible with the old one, you must uninstall [...]
FastCGI for IIS Final Released, Congratulations to the IIS Team!
Published by October 10th, 2007 in Microsoft, Reviews, Software 10 CommentsCongratulations are in order for Microsoft’s IIS development team - today they’ve just announced the public availability of the final version of the IIS-FastCGI ISAPI Extension - a long-awaited and much-improved way of running just about any open-source scripting engine on IIS, safely and quickly.
The Microsoft [[MSFT]] FastCGI module for IIS 5.1, 6, and 7 [...]
eAccelerator PHP Extension Isn’t Thread-Safe…
Published by September 10th, 2007 in Programming, Software, Windows 5 CommentsFor all the Windows-bound PHP users out there, consider yourselves warned: even if you’re running the (supposedly) thread-safe PHP Win32 binary redistribution, you’re still susceptible to PHP Access Violation Errors, race problems, heap corruption, and much worse if you use the popular eAccelerator opcode-caching extension.
We did our testing with the binaries compiled by SiteBuddy using the [...]
No More Downtime!
Published by March 12th, 2007 in Guides, Microsoft, NeoSmart Technologies, Programming, Reviews, Software, Windows 5 CommentsIt seems that every time we get on Slashdot (or Digg for that matter), we go down. It doesn’t make a difference just how well prepared we are, what kind of hosting we’re using, what the application being Slashdotted is, etc. It’s the unwritten law at NST. But we hope this’s the last time we [...]
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