Postmodern PHP: appserver.io, a multithreaded application server for PHP, written in PHP

There’s a lot of very interesting stuff going on in the PHP scene right now, I have the feeling this quite often bashed language gets more and more interesting every day. Today sitepoint.com published an interview [1] with the guys behind appserver.io, a free and open-source (and hopefully also with excellent paid hosting services) multithreaded server, ironically written in PHP itself !

Yes, full and parallel usage of all cores (and threads on hyperthreaded CPUs)!
No need to install Apache, NGINX or similar. And this seems to be really fast!

I guess this will become a very important project … More updates on that soon.

Update #1:

TechDivision has published a installation guideline for Debian Wheezy on the GitHub page [1]

Update #2:

TechDivision has published a roadmap with planned and upcoming features [1]

Update #3:

Interesting one-minute-clip, showing the awesome one-packed-file (.phar) drag and drop deployment of apps on “appserver” [3]

Full interview:
http://www.sitepoint.com/interview-appserver-io-crew/

Appserver.io project:
http://www.appserver.io

Basic setup slides:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/n6foimfiyre20yk/Techtalk.pdf

GitHub:
https://github.com/techdivision/TechDivision_ApplicationServer

This article was written quite a while ago (6 years), please keep this in mind when using the information written here. Links, code and commands might be outdated or broken.

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4 Comments

Stefan Willkommer

February 16, 2015 1:39 pm

Hi Chris,

we are proud to announce that we released the first stable version of http://appserver.io. The first real Application Server for PHP entirely written in PHP which offers a broad range of services like a Webserver, a Servlet Engine, a Timer Service, a Message Queue and a Persistence Container. Check it out!

Cheers,
Stefan

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Tim

February 17, 2014 11:28 pm

Today we released a first preview version for Windows 7+ We’re looking forward to your feedback and hope that we can give you an impression what will be possible!

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Josef Willkommer

January 22, 2014 8:55 pm

Hi Chris,

today we´ve released a new version 0.5.8 of appserver.io with some pretty cool features: http://goo.gl/a7YBCq

Now we´re really excited, because there are still a lot more fantastic features in development… ;-). Feedback and is always appreciated!

Cheers!
Josef

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Stefan Willkommer

October 8, 2013 8:44 pm

Hi Chris,

thanks for your very motivating post. We at the appserver.io team will do our best to fulfill the expectations of the community already watching us. As we mentioned at the interview we definitely plan professional services around the applications server because we believe that this is an important part of an infrastructure product like appserver.io is. So stay tuned and feel free to post or ask questions anytime.

so long,
Stefan

[appserver.io team]

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