PHP doesn’t scale, myth? Aboslutely!
When you are a PHP Programmer sooner or later you would come across the following statement, “Oh PHP?! PHP is awesome, but you know what, it doesn’t scale well!”. So I thought why not go research a little and find some good material to prove otherwise. FoSho! I found alot but I picked a few to share.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php_scalability.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/digg_phps_scalability_and_perf.html
http://shiflett.org/blog/2004/jul/php-scales
Apart from these articles, here are a few big websites are living proof that PHP rocks and is ofcourse SCALABLE!
- Yahoo.com
- Facebook.com
- Youtube.com
- Flickr.com
- wikipedia.com
- photobucket.com
- digg.com
I am sure the aforementioned companies can afford to hire java programmers!
One of the very clear and interesting excerpt from O’reilly.
The PHP Scalability Myth
by Jack Herrington
10/15/2003
PHP scales. There, I said it. The word on the street is that “Java scales and PHP doesn’t.” The word on the street is wrong! and PHP needs someone to stand up and tell the truth: that it does scale.
So there, for all of you who go around telling that PHP doesn’t SCALE start reading a little and STFU!