Some time ago, I received an email from a client experiencing slow performance issues with a LEMP (Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP webserver). During a full audit, I found that the server’s load average was pretty low (see below screenshot). However, the website was indeed very slow. There were some misconfigurations, but one of the […]
PHP 8: Only 3% installed it. Here’s why.
This morning, I read a comment by one of our online community members discussing some of the reasons behind the slow adoption of PHP 8. One member stated that it’s due to PHP compatibility issues across new releases. In contrast, another put it down to the fact that important software/frameworks did not support PHP 8 […]
78% of the web powered by PHP (3% on PHP 8)
Today, PHP is used by almost 78% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Slack, Etsy, Wikipedia, WordPress, Mailchimp, Canva, Indeed, Investing.com, and others are powered by PHP. However, in the coming months, many websites that fail to upgrade to the latest version of PHP 8 will be […]
PHP Monitoring Instrumentation for Laravel Web Artisans
Over the last decade, Laravel has evolved to become an elegant open-source web application framework that’s approachable for beginners and experts alike. There are multiple solutions available to instrument your application on your local dev box, staging, and production, and there are just as many options to monitor these instrumentations. While the Open Telemetry PHP […]
PHP 5.6 EOL (End of Life) – PHP 7 Compatibility Check
Summary: PHP 7.3 benchmark, how to check your PHP scripts/apps for PHP 7 compatibility, upgrade to PHP 7 ASAP, confirm OpCache is enabled/monitored and some php.ini optimization tweaks. PHP 5.6 and PHP 7.0 to hit EOL this year! reached EOL last Year! (2018) PHP 5.6 was first released back in 2014, with alpha 1 released in January 2014. […]
How to upgrade to PHP 7 on RHEL/CentOS
TL;DR = Upgrade to PHP 7 using Remi’s RPM repository – PHP Configuration wizard. Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat targeted toward the commercial market. Red Hat uses strict trademark rules to restrict free re-distribution of its officially supported versions, but still freely provides its source code. Third-party derivatives […]
80% of the web powered by PHP
Today, PHP is used by more than 80% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know. Popular websites such as Slack, Etsy, Cloudflare, Tesla, Wikipedia, WordPress.com, Tumblr and this website are all powered by PHP. With such a large share of the web, it may or may not surprise you that more than 90% 88% […]
‘Clean’ upgrade to PHP 7.* (CentOS / Debian / Ubuntu)
Earlier this year, I wrote a short article: 80% of the web powered by PHP. Also, in the article it was noted that more than 90% of PHP based websites are still using PHP 5. This remains true today. It must be said however, in the past 6 months, there’s been more upgrades to PHP 5.6 […]