If you pay attention to everything in that page seems totally outdated. Better check: http://php.net/manual/en/install.fpm.php or this: http://php.net/manual/en/book.fpm.php No matter how you look at it, except for a very knowledgeable few, mod_php just confuses the hell of a lot of people. Moving to fpm helps people: * Allow the use of event in httpd, using the best scaling mpm there is for httpd. * Discern where their real problems are when there are slowdowns. * Better choice for configurations through different pools in FPM. * Can even separate Apache from PHP execution in different boxes to distribute load accordingly, cheaper boxes can be used for httpd, and probably heavier processing ones for PHP with fpm. etc etc.. 2017-08-02 15:23 GMT+02:00 Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Rose, John B <jbrose@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Looking at the php-fpm homepage … >> >> https://php-fpm.org >> >> it says this … >> >> It was not designed with virtual hosting in mind (large amounts of pools) >> however it can be adapted for any usage model. >> >> Are folks using Apache with numerous virtual hosts, still using mod_php as >> the preferred approach? With I assume prefork MPM? > > I can only assume they mean "hundreds of users with their own pools in > one fpm daemon" as you might find on shared hosting / mass hosting. > > Most people on php-fpm will have moved on to event. Once the PHP > interpreter outside of the server, there's no reason to stay on > prefork. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Daniel Ferradal IT Specialist email dferradal at gmail.com linkedin es.linkedin.com/in/danielferradal --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx