PHP Fog – Cloud Platform for PHP

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:33:35 +0000

The PHP Fog application stack is designed to provide reliability, ease of use, scalability, and speed. From the incoming HTTP request to the delivery of your critical data and features, we’ve baked in redundancies and optimizations in every piece of the stack to deliver reliability and speed. We’ve talked to thousands of customers to understand the pain points and build an infrastructure that automates scalability and makes deployment and management of applications easy. Developers love us, and IT departments need us.

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Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware by compiling PHP to C++

Brent Sordyl — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 16:03:41 +0000

When Facebook moved its servers to HipHop for PHP – the code transformer it built to convert PHP into optimized C++ – the company’s average CPU usage dropped by 50 per cent. And after six months of additional engineering, the tool was about 1.8 times faster.

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PHP Fog – Cloud Platform for PHP

Facebook HipHop serves 70% more traffic on same hardware by compiling PHP to C++