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I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world

44 points · 77 comments · EGreg

  1. mpalmer · · focus · HN ↗
    I'm confused why the copy you generated repeatedly boasts "no nginx, no Redis" as if those things don't exist independently of application servers for a reason, and as if building something that doesn't need these things (when deployed as a single instance) is particularly notable.

    "no Docker" - so what? Docker is a tool. Running containers on Linux has extremely low overhead. No idea what this is about.

    You didn't spend the effort to decorate the slop with your rationale for these choices, so I see no evidence that you built any of this.

    1. vachina · · focus · HN ↗
      PHP is stable enough to not need Docker.

      As in there’s very little ways to fuck up a PHP setup.

      You just turn it on and it runs.

      1. tcfhgj · · focus · HN ↗
        then find out you need to install and configure a series of php extensions
        1. confusedbucket · · focus · HN ↗
          And get rid of all the hardcoded paths, domains, things that only make it work on the specific OS the previous person was using even though there's nothing in the app that would justify it. And then one day, someone introduces Docker, that will make it work everywhere, only now you have to start the containers in some specific order and comprehend some complicated volume setup and it runs 10x slower.
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