We performed a comparison between IIS 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."The tool is very easy to use and efficient."
"IIS is useful for the deployment of web applications...Its stability is good."
"The solution is very stable. The solution is very simple and easy to use."
"It has an intuitive user interface and provides a lot of options for building reports."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is that it's free, and it works."
"The product is flexible."
"The solution is very easy to use and offers a quick deployment."
"Offers a complete environment to develop PHP applications. It is valuable because it allows you to have a complete stack (PHP, MySQL, Zend Server) enabling the building of a development environment, and to deploy to the production system."
"Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"We have not encountered issues with scalability as long as we effectively use caching to optimize performance of our web applications as well as a proper use of database connectivity."
"Scaling up is an important factor for large projects, and with PHP 7 and its performance improvements, this becomes even easier."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"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."
"The user interface could be improved."
"If Microsoft IIS could work well with AppOptics or things like PHP, Python, and other custom languages that run on the webserver, it would be ideal. I think there are cases where people need to use Apache instead of IIS when IIS doesn't work well with other web languages."
"Compared to Linux, the solution’s Windows patching is slower. I would like to improve it."
"The initial setup could be made easier."
"The documentation isn't very good and the options are very complex."
"The solution's scalability needs improvement."
"The tool needs to improve its performance."
"The price of the solution could be less to improve."
"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."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"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."
"The solution can be quicker."
"Its object oriented programming language needs improvement."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
"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."
IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and JBoss, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our IIS vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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