In my local development set up, I sometimes don’t want to have ColdFusion running as I’ll be working on something that’s just HTML, JavaScript or using another language like PHP (don’t tell no one!). Everytime I tried this, Apache would crawl to a halt when requesting non-ColdFusion files (css, html, js, php etc…). If I started ColdFusion up, everything worked perfectly, maybe life is just better with ColdFusion always on 
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I like to run PHP under Apache via FastCGI, it feels performant enough and has the benefit of not bringing down Apache if PHP crashes (as can happen when using PHP as a module). In my job I had set this up and it was working beautifully, but little did I know what the future held…
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Introduction
Zend have released their latest version of Zend Server, version 5.0, which includes a Community Edition. In this post I’m taking a look at the free Community Edition for Windows, which includes the following (some items are optional):
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After reading a benchmark post comparing WinCache against Zend Optimizer, on MS Web Platform and Zend Server respectively, I thought I’d try Zend Server (CE) with WinCache. The reasoning behind this is a bug with Zend Optimizer that I’m suffering from (using PHP 5.2) where it’ll randomly crash the php-cgi.exe process. This only appears to be a problem with certain code contained somewhere within Moodle that it doesn’t like.
