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Cloudways: Introducing PHP 7 Servers on Managed Cloud Hosting Platform
Due to popular demand by their customers, Cloudways have just proudly announced that their managed cloud hosting platform is now supporting PHP 7. Recently they have also been migrating their platform to Debian 8 OS.
According to their own tests, the latest PHP version makes your web apps up to 100% faster.
Benchmarks
- For WordPress 4.4.2 with cache activated and 250 concurrent visitors, they have measured a response time of just 4ms compared to 1.2sec on PHP 5.5.
- Laravel on PHP 7 has a response time of just 541ms compared to 992ms on PHP 5.6.
- Drupal 7 on PHP 7 with caching and 250 concurrent visitors has a response time of 3ms.
- PHP Stack: Response time of 346ms on PHP 7
Launch your PHP 7 server either on DigitalOcean, Vultr™, Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Google Compute Engine (GCE) now.
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