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Zend Server is a complete, enterprise-ready Web Application Server for running and managing PHP applications that require a high level of reliability, performance and security.

What is Included in Zend Server:

Code Tracing: Solve Problems Faster Than Ever!

Finding the root cause of problems, especially when they occur in the production environment, is a time-sink for developers and system administrators. Zend Server 5.0 applies the concept of a black box flight recorder to PHP. It can record live application execution in testing or production, helping you quickly pinpoint bugs and performance bottlenecks in your code.

Job Queue: Offload Execution of Long-running PHP Scripts

Web applications generally follow the synchronous communication paradigm, however some tasks are better suited to asynchronous execution. Long-running report generation, order processing, database cleanup, and pulling of RSS feeds are some examples of jobs Jobs contain information about a specific Job (script to run) that you have set to run in your environment. that can be executed asynchronously. Zend Server 5.0 incorporates Job Queue A simple and manageable system for off-loading tasks from the synchronous user request, to an external, parallel PHP process., providing full support for creating, executing and managing jobs to optimize application performance and reduce server load.

A Web Application Server for Your Application

If you’re developing or running a business-critical PHP application on a couple of servers, Zend Server is the right solution for you. In cases where your application runs on a large number of servers, or if you require session clustering or a job queue, Zend Platform Enterprise Solution could suit your need.

Enhance PHP Application Reliability and Security

Tracking, installing, configuring and testing dozens of PHP libraries and drivers is a time sink for developers, testers and administrators. The rapid updates and code changes in today’s fast-paced Web application arena further aggravate the challenges of maintaining reliable and secure PHP runtime environments.

Zend Server customers have access to Zend’s technical support, and receive online software updates, hot fixes and security patches, to ensure they run the most reliable, secure, and up-to-date version of PHP. Read about the Service Level Agreement (SLA) Zend provides to its customers.

Ensure Successful Deployments

Many of the problems encountered during application deployment or in production occur because different PHP versions and configurations are used in development, testing and production.

Zend Server enables you to deploy your PHP applications with confidence, ensuring every member of your team uses the same, highly reliable environment consistently through each stage of the application life cycle.  If you ship your PHP application to a remote customer, Zend Server’s unattended installer facilitates fast and trouble-free deployments.

Detect Problems Before the Phone Rings

When things go wrong with your application, you want to know about it as soon as possible, and resolve the problem before end-users are impacted.  Zend Server enables you to take a proactive approach when it comes to ensuring the best user experience by monitoring PHP application execution and alerting you to critical problems such as:

• Slow PHP script execution

• PHP errors

• Errors in specific function calls

• Excess memory usage

• Errors in called Java code

• And more…

Quickly Pinpoint Root Cause of Problem

Knowing that a problem occurred is an essential first step, yet what really counts is how fast you can isolate its root cause and deliver a solution.  Zend Server slashes root cause analysis time by capturing application execution data, such as variable values, call stack and environment information, for every detected incident.  Developers can further analyze captured data in Zend Studio, thereby eliminating the time-consuming task of reproducing production problems in a lab.  

Boost Application Performance

A high-quality user experience is expected from business-critical Web applications, even during peak loads, yet deploying more hardware to increase performance may prove to be costly.  Zend Server provides multiple capabilities for improving application response times and minimizing resource utilization.

• Code Acceleration – PHP bytecode caching increases performance with no application changes

• Full page caching – A URL-based HTML output cache that does not require any application changes

• Partial page caching – A set of functions that allow developers to cache data in shared memory or to disk