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Zend Server
Web Application Server for Business-Critical PHP Applications
Zend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web Application Server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security on Linux, Windows or IBM i.
| Business-grade PHP An up-to-date, tested and supported PHP stack ensures high reliability, enhances security and increases staff productivity |
Deployment with confidence A complete and consistent environment used in development, testing and production eliminates many of the problems encountered during deployment |
Rapid response to problems Advanced application monitoring and diagnostics enable early problem detection and quick root cause analysis |
Optimal application performance Built-in optimization and acceleration ensures high performance and low resource utilization |
Enhance PHP Application Reliability and Security
Tracking, installing, configuring and testing dozens of PHP libraries and drivers is a time sink for developers, testers and administrators. The rapid updates and code changes in today’s fast-paced Web application arena further aggravate the challenges of maintaining reliable and secure PHP runtime environments.
Zend Server includes a production-ready, tested stack that incorporates PHP, Zend Framework, required extensions and drivers - all installed through RPM/DEB on Linux or MSI on Windows. Zend Server also support IBM i.
Zend Server customers have access to Zend’s technical support, and receive online software updates, hot fixes and security patches, to ensure they run the most reliable, secure, and up-to-date version of PHP. Read about the Service Level Agreement (SLA) Zend provides to its customers.
Ensure Successful Deployments
Many of the problems encountered during application deployment or in production occur because different PHP versions and configurations are used in development, testing and production.
Zend Server enables you to deploy your PHP applications with confidence, ensuring every member of your team uses the same, highly reliable environment consistently through each stage of the application life cycle. If you ship your PHP application to a remote customer, Zend Server’s unattended installer facilitates fast and trouble-free deployments.
Detect Problems Before the Phone Rings
When things go wrong with your application, you want to know about it as soon as possible, and resolve the problem before end-users are impacted. Zend Server enables you to take a proactive approach when it comes to ensuring the best user experience by monitoring PHP application execution and alerting you to critical problems such as:
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Quickly Pinpoint Root Cause of Problems With Code TracingOnce you've been alerted to a problem, finding its root cause -- especially when it occurs in the production environment -- is a time-sink for developers and system administrators. Zend Server applies the concept of a black box flight recorder to PHP. It can record live application execution in testing or production, helping you quickly pinpoint bugs and performance bottlenecks in your code. Learn more about Zend Server Code Tracing » |
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Boost Application Performance
A high-quality user experience is expected from business-critical Web applications, even during peak loads, yet deploying more hardware to increase performance may prove to be costly. Zend Server provides multiple capabilities for improving application response times and minimizing resource utilization.
- Code Acceleration – PHP bytecode caching increases performance with no application changes
- Full page caching – A URL-based HTML output cache that does not require any application changes
- Partial page caching – A set of functions that allow developers to cache data in shared memory or to disk
Job Queue: Offload Execution of Long-running PHP Scripts
Web applications generally follow a synchronous communication paradigm. However, some tasks are better suited to asynchronous execution. Long-running report generation, order processing, database cleanup, and pulling of RSS feeds are some examples of jobs that can be executed asynchronously. Zend Server 5.0 incorporates Job Queue, providing full support for creating, executing and managing jobs to optimize application performance and reduce server load, minimizing application bottlenecks and improving the end-user experience.
Read more about Zend Server Job Queue »
Zend Server Community Edition (CE)
The community edition of Zend Server is a free, simple PHP Web Application Server environment that you can use in development or production. It does not include application monitoring, diagnostics and page caching. Zend Server Community Edition for Windows/Linux/Macintosh is supported only through the Zend technical forum.
Learn more (Windows/Linux/Macintosh) »
Learn more (IBM i) »
