Zend are holding a free webinar on Wednesday 22 April from San Francisco (9:00am PDT, 4:00pm UTC/GMT). The event is led by Shahar Evron and titled “How to increase application performance using caching”. Shahar will give a one-hour live demonstration showing the steps required to optimize and boost the performance of your PHP applications using Zend Server.
The company has also released Zend Server Community Edition, a free web application server that is easy to install and use. It is recommended for developers running PHP in a production environment and downloads are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. The package includes:
- Apache 2.2 web server
- PHP
- Zend Optimizer+ (opcode caching and optimization)
- Zend Cache (data and output caching)
- Zend Guard Loader (encoding PHP)
- Zend Framework (PHP libraries)
- Zend Debugger
- Java Server (Java PHP extension)
- Java Bridge (integration of Java libraries in PHP)
- Oracle Instant database client
- IBM DB2 RTCL database client
- MySQL database
- phpMyAdmin (MySQL management tool)
Links:
See also:
- How to Install Apache Web Server on Windows
- How to Install PHP on Windows
- How to Install MySQL
- How to Use MySQL Foreign Keys for Quicker Database Development
Did you attend the Zend webinar? Was it any good? Did you learn anything new about PHP?
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sounds like they are just trying to sell their products. i can increase performance with nginx + php-fpm + memcache + (apc/xcache). i would also bet my bottom dollar that it would out preform the setup they have listed above.
April 22nd, 2009 at 2:36 am
I wouldn’t mind checking this out, but my timezone doesn’t really allow it. :(
Do you know if it will be replayed after it has finished?
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:59 am