PHP has a new and modern official app server called FrankenPHP. This gives your PHP apps the super power it needs to serve various workloads beyond what the tradition methods have to offer. These superpowers includes the following:
- Speed & performance.
- Real time Capabilities.
- Support for modern, cutting edge web protocols like Early Hints, QUIC+HTTP/3, etc.
- Ease of distributing you PHP app as a single binary.
Below is a result of performance benchmark I made, comparing FrankenPHP, Nginx and PHP CLI Server out of the box.
I used wrk with 12 threads, 400 concurrent connections for 30 seconds for each server on a Ubuntu WSL machine with a 12GB RAM and 20 Cores available. The results are staggering and it shows the power of FrankenPHP out of box.
Note that it is possible to get other servers, like Nginx to this level of performance but it will require some fine-tuning and optimization on the developers side.
So what are you waiting for go ahead, use, tinker and contribute to this amazing project if you can.