Our BlogToday's internet offers unprecedented power. Blink keeps you updated.Zend Server CE as a Drupal development environment on WindowsI'm now using Zend Server CE as my Drupal development environment on Windows. Previously, I used the WAMP package and was very satisfied with it due to its flexibility and stability. However, I noticed that recent projects began to get slower and slower. They had many modules enabled so by the completion time, they began to feel like real CPU eating monsters. (Details: I have a Core 2 Duo 3GHz with 4GB RAM – should be more than enough for a Drupal site, even a heavy one. PHP opcaches didn't help much.) It was time to try something new – Zend Amazing! The project's home page (development, so caching off) load time was reduced from 12 seconds (WAMP) to less than 3 seconds (Zend Sever)! I would agree that the php.ini setting can make a difference, but not 4 times… What really does the trick are two Zend Server components – Zend Data Cache and Zend Optimizer+. It's also running PHP in Fast CGI mode, which is not a trivial task to set-up with bare bone Apache and PHP on Windows.
Give it a try, see the difference and let us know what you think. Best of all, it's free! ;)
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Hey, glad to see such large performance gains. I don't know if you have seen it, but we (Zend) actually did a whitepaper with Acquia on how to increase performance with Drupal on Zend Server. If you'd like to see it you can get it here: http://www.zend.com/en/resources/white-papers/.
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