Zend Server

Zend Server refers to a PHP application server product line offered by Zend Technologies, released in early 2009^[1] with production support available for Windows and Linux. It is available in two versions, Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition. Zend Server is supported on x86 and x86-64 compatible machines with IBM iSeries support in Zend Server 5. On Linux it is supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora Core, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Debian and Ubuntu. On Windows, Zend Server is supported on Windows Server 2003/2008, XP, Vista and Windows 7. At Zendcon 2009 Zend announced the public beta of Zend Server 5.0^[2]. The current version is 5.5 which included support for production deployment functionality.

Features

Zend Server

• Native installation – Windows MSI, Debian deb and Red Hat yum installation
• Certified PHP (Both 5.3 and 5.2)
• Zend Framework – ZF installation and updates as part of the native installation package
• Apache or IIS integration
• Java connector – Integrates existing Java functionality as PHP code
• Web-based administrator console
• Debugger interface
• Bytecode acceleration – Keeps compiled code in shared memory, increasing performance by reducing disk access and CPU processing time
• Data Caching API
• Page caching
• Deployment functionality
• Application monitoring – Does runtime monitoring of individual PHP requests several different conditions
  • Function Error
  • Database Error
  • Slow Function Execution
  • Slow Query Execution
  • Slow Request Execution
  • High Memory Usage
  • Inconsistent Output Size
  • Uncaught Java Exception
  • Custom Event
  • Fatal PHP Error
  • PHP Error
• Application problem diagnostics
• Zend Download Server (Linux only) - Allows for large content, such as videos, to be downloaded without tying up an Apache process
• Software updates and hotfixes

Zend Server CE

Zend Server Community Edition contains a subset of features from the full Zend Server stack^[3] and runs on Windows, Linux and OS X.^[4][5]

• Native installation – Windows MSI, Debian deb, Red Hat yum installation
• Certified PHP
• Zend Framework – ZF installation and updates as part of the native installation package
• Apache or IIS integration
• Java connector – Integrates existing Java functionality as PHP code
• Web-based administrator console
• Debugger interface
• Bytecode acceleration – Keeps compiled code in shared memory, increasing performance by reducing disk access and CPU processing time
• Data Caching API

Zend Server Cluster Manager

• High Availability Session Clustering with Graceful Shutdown
• Event Monitoring Aggregation
• Code Tracing Aggregation
• Cluster-wide configuration
• Notifications when machines are added or removed from the cluster
• Notifications when cluster node configuration is out of sync
• Deployment functionality for cross-cluster application management

References

1. ^ Zend Server Released
2. ^ Zend announces public beta of Zend Server 5.0 at ZendCon
3. ^ Comparison of Zend Server editions
4. ^ Getting Started with Zend Server CE
5. ^ NCSU Web Developers - Zend Server CE

External links

• Zend Server website
• Zend Server CE website
• Zend Server website
• Deployment on Zend Server 5.5
• Why Utilize Zend Server Community Edition?
• Installing Zend Server for Oracle
• Real-time ZF Monitoring via Zend Server
• Zend Server/Magento
• PHP Middleware Debuts With Zend Server
• Do you queue? Introduction to the Zend Server Job Queue