NYCPHP Meetup

[John Lacey]

Lee Semel wrote:

> I am planning an e-commerce site, to be developed either in PHP or 
> Java (preferably the former), but I haven't made my final decision 
> yet.  One of the key issues is the ability to scale the site onto a 
> cluster of servers, as traffic grows. 
>  
> In Java, it seems that commercial application servers can handle this 
> out of the box.  But I don't see how this can be done on PHP, and I'm 
> wondering if anyone actually does this in a critical production 
> environment.
>  
> How would you set up load balancing and failover on a PHP site? Is 
> there any particular way you would design the application up front to 
> make this easier?  I'm interesting in hearing your suggestions.
>  
> Lee
>  



take a look at oscommerce

http://www.oscommerce.com/

John