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."When you are working with Microsoft solutions, you will see that the integration with the operating system, and implementing some security features, are easier in IIS than when using another solution."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is the database it provides."
"We use the solution for our customer's web applications."
"The graphical user interface makes it easy for users to configure the sites."
"The initial setup of IIS is easy. The process takes only five minutes."
"The solution is very simple to use and easy to deploy."
"It is a scalable solution."
"We use Windows Server only for Eggplant Manager."
"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."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"This solution is really easy for me to use."
"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."
"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."
"Sometimes if you are using IIS in large-scale scenarios, meaning that if you are deploying an application within IIS service and you are expecting a large number of users to use this application, you can sometimes find some problems, meaning that the service can shut down by itself unexpectedly if you don't configure your IIS with the correct configuration that can handle this number of users."
"The user interface could be improved."
"It lacks a few performance improvement tools."
"The product could be more compatible with Linux and macOS, particularly when applying user configuration policies."
"The price of the solution could be less to improve."
"The initial setup could be made easier."
"Performance-wise, certain improvements in IIS are needed...IIS is not scalable. Its scalability is less."
"I am using an older version of Windows Server IIS and the general management and navigation to get something done is not as straightforward as I hope it to be. The interface could be improved."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"SQL queries have always been an issue with PHP, especially if you use large tables, which require caution from the side of the developer."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
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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