Users on this server may notice an improvement in the speed of their webpages.
There are many existing ways to serve PHP under Apache and they are all flawed in some way.
- RUID2 + mod_php
- A giant security hole that lets any user get a root account
- MPM ITK
- Very slow, as it kills processes after each request
- suPHP & CGI
- Both slow, as they start PHP on each request. They are also incompatible with opcode caching.
- FastCGI
- Stability issues, hard to configure due to the way it handles processes, and doesn’t use opcode caching optimally.
- PHP FPM
- Requires a socket/startup per customer, not that stable with Apache and creates a mess when we tried to integrate it with PHP Selector – as now PHP selector would have to restart PHP FPM processes.
LSAPI for PHP is the fastest and most reliable we’ve found to serve PHP pages.
It is drop in replacement for SuPHP, FCGID, RUID2 & ITK, has low memory footprint and understands PHP directives from .htaccess files.
Benfits of mod_lsapi
- Speed
- Faster than any other way to serve PHP with Apache
- Stability
- Doesn’t suffer from stability issues in process management like PHP FPM
- Opcode Caching
- Full benefits of opcode caching are utilised
- Event MPM compatible
- Event MPM is very scalable
- .htaccess honoured
- PHP directives in .htaccess are supported
- PHP Selector
- Full compatibility with CloudLinux’s PHP Selector
Wednesday, November 11, 2015