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Asked: 2026-05-24T02:28:08+00:00

Hi i am writing a socket server , At the moment i have 2

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Hi i am writing a socket server , At the moment i have 2 options

  1. Go with PHP

  2. Go with C++

The thing i need to know is that which of them is more reliable and scalable.After searching google a lot i found out that pretty much C++ can take care of my Scale needs but the thing is C++ requires much more coding then PHP moreover deployment is a bit harder on C++ .

PHP sounds promising (because of native API’s for SQL & SOCKETS also its easier to deploy on cross platforms ) but I have no clue on how scalable the PHP based server can be.At the moment i want to support atleast 1k – 2k concurrent connections . Can PHP take this load ?

Also is there any way to implement Multithreading in PHP (so that i can part the workload on 2 or more threads rather then 1 overloaded thread holding all users and there requests).

Incase needed My server is a basic machine.

Processor : AMD Sempron 3000+

RAM : 2 GB

HDD : 80 Gigs

I plan to move to a faster server after some time .

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    PHP is definitely a bad choice – no threads – your basic architecture would be to fork() a process for every connection. Not fun.

    C++ is probably the way to go, though you might other interpreted languages and evaluate them.

    Before committing to writing something in C++, I’d certainly consider an event-driven server-side-javascript approach (see http://nodejs.org), or possibly something python (twisted?) or ruby-based.

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