We performed a comparison between Apache Web Server and Zend PHP Engine based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Its community is its most valuable feature. Solving problems is easier on Apache because so many people know this product."
"It is scalable."
"Most of the features I liked were related to the performance during peak hours."
"Apache has proven to be incredibly reliable, and everything has operated smoothly without encountering any issues."
"It's very stable, and it hosts one of the biggest of many biggest web applications in the world."
"It's reliable, configurable and generally secure."
"The solution offers good security."
"The most significant advantage is the ability to swiftly enable HTTPS services when my DNS is configured correctly."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"The cache modules that Zend provides have been able to optimize and accelerate the loading of the pages when there was exponential growth in data volume and quantity of requests. At the same time, the monitoring console allowed us to have a real-time understanding of the resources and to make decisions when they were at the limit."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"Zend PHP Engine is more secure than any other framework, and I usually prefer Zend PHP Engine for big applications."
"Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers."
"This solution is really easy for me to use."
"Scaling up is an important factor for large projects, and with PHP 7 and its performance improvements, this becomes even easier."
"It would be great if technical support for Apache were available in Iran. It is a very important need."
"The major issue occurs with ports. So, I would like to see easier port management."
"The GUI for the less experienced users needs some improvement. For some companies, it is hard to configure it if they have not had any experience."
"Its stability could be better."
"There is a security-related problem that depends on the web server's configuration."
"The interface has room for improvement."
"So far, for us, everything is okay."
"I want the user interface to be more user-friendly."
"Its object oriented programming language needs improvement."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM."
"Although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
"In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
Apache Web Server is ranked 3rd in Application Infrastructure with 11 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 4 reviews. Apache Web Server is rated 8.6, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Apache Web Server writes "Useful in deploying servers to host websites with good modularity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "An open-source solution, that is stable and compiles and sends the dynamic cache quickly". Apache Web Server is most compared with IIS, NGINX Plus, IBM WebSphere Application Server, Microsoft .NET Framework and IBM DataPower Gateway, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with NGINX Plus. See our Apache Web Server vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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