PHP 7.4 and Website Speed Performance Boosts – even from Peterhead!
The latest version of PHP – version 7.4 – available on its release day last week. You can switch a single site to it now by Managing a hosting package and selecting ‘Change PHP Version’.
PHP-FPM: better process management
Creative use of PHP is central to improving any hosting platform. Google likes fast loading websites better than slow ones so anything that can help serve pages faster can benefit your site in search results and rankings.
Our developers have improved our unique autoscaling technology by specifically tuning Apache to manage PHP-FPM and OPcache pools for all websites. This makes PHP applications even faster on our platform.
They’ve worked hard to get the PHP-FastCGI Process Manager and OPcache working at our scale. It now integrates seamlessly with our autoscaling and load balancing. It boosts performance for every website running PHP 5.6 or above without any need for further optimisation. So you’ll find that busy sites will run even faster and smoother for every user now.
It also means performance improvements between PHP versions are even more visible, so anyone running older versions of PHP should aim at upgrading to get better performance.
Unlike most other shared web hosting, ours doesn’t have Lightweight Virtual Environment (LVE) limits. These limits put artificial constraints on resources, like cores, memory, bandwidth and processes. So you get full access to as much resource that your site needs. We’ve also added PHP-FPM which means your site will run even faster, no matter how busy it gets.