In a blog post last month, we outlined why a traditional Apache+PHP setup will inevitably fail the growing needs of medium to large AJAX-based websites. The article is continued this month by analyzing different methods of scaling web services past the concurrency barrier inherent in a basic Apache+PHP setup.
While speaking with the technical minds of several companies in our industry, there were several very good questions raised about assumptions we had made when building our system. The feedback from the first blog post about this topic revolved around the following two questions…