What is PHP-FPM?
It is an alternative PHP FastCGI implementation with some additional features useful for sites of any size, especially busier sites. It includes Adaptive process spawning, Advanced process management with graceful stop/start, Emergency restart in case of accidental opcode cache destruction etc.
PHP-FPM is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Who uses PHP-FPM?
Companies
28 companies reportedly use PHP-FPM in their tech stacks, including Yousign, Modanisa.com, and nefisyemektarifleri.
Developers
77 developers on StackShare have stated that they use PHP-FPM.
PHP-FPM Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to PHP-FPM?
HHVM (HipHop Virtual Machine)
HHVM uses a just-in-time (JIT) compilation approach to achieve superior performance while maintaining the flexibility that PHP developers are accustomed to. To date, HHVM (and its predecessor HPHPc before it) has realized over a 9x increase in web request throughput and over a 5x reduction in memory consumption for Facebook compared with the PHP 5.2 engine + APC.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
uWSGI
The uWSGI project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services.
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
