How robust is PHP?

[monkey64]

I'm looking to develop a website for a medium size company. Typical hits p/month: 11,000 (about 300 p/day). At times when there is a deal, this could double.

Is the PHP/MySQL combination robust enough for this purpose? A colleague (an ASP programmer), thought that a site written in PHP would buckle under the strain, and suggested ASP or ASPX instead.

What do you think.

 

[vacunita]

11,000 hits? really your concerned PHP can't handle that or MYSQL?

Yahoo.com runs on PHP
Wikipedia runs on PHP
Photobucket.com runs on PHP
those are just a few examples.

Do you see them having problems? do you think they don't take more than 11000 hits not daily but hourly?


MYSQL can handle millions of transactions, and the only thing to worry about with PHP is if the server its one can handle the load.







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[vacunita]

Also Facebook runs on PHP


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Phil AKA Vacunita
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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[jaxtell]

I've recently spoken with a rep from a company that has had intermittent issues with their PHP web site. Apparently whenever they get more than 150,000 hits in a day, the site becomes sluggish. The multi-million hit months occasionally have a few to several minutes of slowness. They need to take some extra steps to deal with these loads.

As long as your code, both PHP and MySQL, are written well, you shouldn't have anything to worry about. If you do have problems, you'd probably have them with a web site written in another language too.

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[DonQuichote]

It's up to the programmer, really. I have seen ASP .NET sites that happily incorporated any buzzword that existed. If you just called one page, a database connection was started to drive the url rewriting, the site would generate XML based on more database connections and queries because that was fancy and then put that through an xslt transformation to produce HTML. Needless to say that even not-busy sites had to be load-balanced.

On the other hand, I have developed many PHP sites and never had any performance problems.

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[darryncooke]

most times when sites become sluggish due to high load its harware issues NOT the programming language.

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