Distros for Web Serving

[Phil Waclawski]

I use webtatic to get PHP7, and nginx is a good solid upgrade in speed. It
is missing a couple of features that Apache has, but not ones that I have
ever really needed.
Phil W

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 2:00 PM, kevin <kevin at fries-biro.com> wrote:

> 7 is a HUGE performance improvement over 5, and we are glad we made the
> conversion.  Also, use opcache, it made a huge difference for us.
>
> Kevin
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> Date: 3/20/18 2:54 PM (GMT-07:00)
> To: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
> Subject: Re: Distros for Web Serving
>
> I have been really happy with php7 lately, especially giving it a touch
> more ram than I used to.
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Andrew McRobb <andrewmcrobb at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> PHP 7 is almost 2x faster and I use MariaDB and CentOS for work and
>> production. No complaints here except that some of the repos are a bit
>> dated, but there are 100 tutorials on upgrading to PHP 7, so I wont burn
>> time writing one. If you also want to speed things up, I highly recommend
>> using Docker however.
>>
>> Creates a sense of security between applications/server.
>> Skip a LOT of setup when Docker containers have lot of environment
>> variables you can set to do things for you.
>>
>> If you like the idea of Docker, but want something more 'native' and
>> mature. FreeBSD is also good w/ it's jails. That's just my two cents.
>>
>>
>> Andrew McRobb
>> Full-time Software Developer
>> Part-time Freelancer
>> mcrobb.info
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 12:12 PM, Nathan O'Brennan <plugaz at codezilla.xyz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I've been using RedHat/Centos for 20 years now and generally don't look
>>> much else for my server needs. I have a production server that is seriously
>>> straining under the load and it appears to be time to upgrade to a larger
>>> server. But I'm wondering about the benefits of php7 and maybe a newer
>>> mariadb than what currently ships on Centos 7.
>>>
>>> Call me an old dog, but I'm not exactly thrilled with the idea of using
>>> Ubuntu server and learning all the new stuff. I'm a developer who also is
>>> tasked with managing all the servers and just not sure I'll have the time
>>> to learn new tricks.
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm just looking for a confidence boost, but any other devops guys
>>> here using linux web serving and looking at some of the newer technologies?
>>>
>>> I appreciate your thoughts and insights.
>>>
>>> Nathan
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