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I work for a shared hoster and can confirm that PHP works great on IIS6 (with FastCGI add-on installed) and IIS7+.

• mattmanser 11y ago
  Yeah, but this is what it actually says: If you need to run your production system on Windows then IIS7 will give you the most stable and best performance. So it seems to be recommending IIS7 specifically, IIS 7.5, IIS 8 and IIS 8.5 have come out since then. So it is a bit like saying you should run this software on windows vista for best performance. IIS7 is old software. I guess I'm asking, have the IIS team given up on PHP performance or is this recommendation really out of date.
  • teh_klev 11y ago
    That page is way out of date. There's not really much IIS does other than hand off requests to a new or already warmed up php-cgi.exe (via the FastCGI bits). The performance stuff is really more down to the PHP maintainers (though Microsoft have contributed, and continue to do so). The only pain point can be when there's a new release of PHP and you have customers who want to access MS SQL databases. This is done via Microsoft's own drivers [0] (Windows only). It's not been unknown for these driver releases to lag a bit behind PHP releases, but that said I see they're on the ball now with support for 5.6. Other than that PHP runs just as quick and as reliably on Windows as it does on our Linux shared environments (I look after both). [0]: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=20098 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=200...