If you’re a developer or you follow web development trends, you’re probably aware that a new, major update to PHP was released late last year. You may be wondering if …
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Continue ReadingIt’s clear to see that there’s increased demand for beginner-friendly web hosting. As a result, the majority of hosting companies keep expanding their services to appeal more people. While this …
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Continue ReadingThe release of PHP 7.0 bought with it numerous features, vastly improving the performance and security of PHP applications. Since they’re known for frequent updates, however, it comes as no …
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Continue ReadingChoosing the right programming language or framework for your next project is always complicated. Ask a dozen developers for their opinion and chances are you’ll get a dozen different answers, …
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Continue ReadingIn previous blog posts, including our comparison of HHVM vs PHPNG, we talk about how PHP 7 typically beats HHVM by up to 20% and it is up to 100% faster than PHP 5.6 (even though we do need to run our own performance comparisons here at A2 Hosting). These numbers are definitely provide a nice broad overview of the dramatic performance boost and memory efficiency enhancements offered by PHP 7.
Continue ReadingAs you may have read on our June 29th blog post, the alpha version of PHP 7 was released. Since that post was published, PHP released the first beta version of PHP. We know that PHP 7 has a clear cut focus on performance. Let’s look at some of the contributing elements to those performance improvements and the other enhancements included with PHP 7.
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