Zend PHP Accelerator

[Myriad]

I recently purchased a license for the Zend PHP Accelerator. It's amazing that our PHP applications load up to 21 times faster. I had used PHP Accelerator (http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk/), however, I found that its cache didn't encode some of my stuff correctly, therefore I decided to switch to Zend. I do like Nick's PHP Accelerator, though I am using something that works for our applications which require PHP to call our custom extensions.

The attached picture (in PNG format) displays the percentage of acceleration from Zend Accelerator. It's from their administration console (another thing the free PHP-accelerator lacks).

[Scott MacVicar]

sweet :)

Though i'm sure Nick will fix any sort of problem with the accelerator as soon as its found, did you report it to him?

[bigmattyh]

What did that run you? $1000?

[eva2000]

nice... how much did that set you back a zend accelerator license ?

[Myriad]

The Zend Accelerator is worth it because it really helps. It has actually reduced our server costs in maintenance (i.e. we don't have to buy another server to handle more PHP load). Even though it costs $1,000, it saves you in the end nearly $4,000 for a new server (not including cluster software, probably an extra $3,000 per server).

It's very nice and I have no complaints about the product. I strongly recommend that you use either Nick's PHP Accelerator (http://www.php-accelerator.co.uk) if you are using it for a personal site or Zend's (http://www.zend.com/) PHP Accelerator if you're using it for a business.

[John]

We use the php-accelerator.co.uk one here, and we get a very nice web admin console. Our load rarely reaches 0.5 nowadays.

[situledi]

well, first of all, hello to everybody...
i 'm interesting about this post, b/c we have some problem with our provider...there is a dead time before the loading of each pages...
(vbulletin version 2.2.8, registred user of course, fresh install, the same problem without MODS)
(sorry for my english..)
so i' don't know if it's the right place here to post it ... in case please move it if i make a mistake..
so i run "phpinfo.php" and this give thoses informations:

PHP Version 4.1.2

System Linux rev66.cobalt 2.2.16C28_III #1 Mon Jul 30 22:07:58 PDT 2001 i586 unknown
Build Date Mar 6 2002
Configure Command './configure' '--prefix=/usr' '--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs' '--with-gd' '--with-gettext=/usr' '--enable-safe-mode' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/httpd' '--with-exec-dir=/usr/bin' '--with-zlib' '--enable-magic-quotes' '--with-regex=system' '--with-ttf' '--with-db' '--with-gdbm' '--with-mbstring' '--with-mbstr-enc-trans' '--enable-track-vars' '--enable-wddx=shared' '--enable-mm=shared' '--enable-xml' '--enable-ftp' '--disable-debug' '--with-libdir=/usr/lib' '--with-db3' '--with-interbase=shared' '--with-pgsql=shared' '--with-ldap' '--with-imap' '--with-curl=shared' '--with-pdflib=shared'
Server API Apache
Virtual Directory Support disabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path /etc/httpd/php.ini
ZEND_DEBUG disabled
Thread Safety disabled

This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:
Zend Engine v1.1.1, Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Zend Technologies

so u can note:
Virtual Directory Support disabled and ZEND_DEBUG disabled
so i think that our provider run throw ZEND...

is there a way to activate it?
and how?

please explain me, and "take my hand" to show me the way....

every help will be appreciated... we really need it
and we want to understand the dead time before loading

best regard