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Asked: 2026-05-12T18:37:13+00:00

I wanted to know if somebody could explain in somewhat simple terms how I

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I wanted to know if somebody could explain in somewhat simple terms how I could get
started with comet. I am on a shared host environment.

What exactly are my possibillity’s?

From what I have read here sofar, is that php is not the best option., because it is
run as a one process per request instead off thread.
On another, they talk about sockets.

I have also read about facebook and that they run there own comet server written in erlang, but they still have a php website. So how exactly does that work then?

I have read alot off stuff now, but it is still a bit vague on what is actually possible
in my situation. Running a php script that is a client off a comet server?? That is not saying how it keeps a longlasting open connection! (just throwing in some comments from other posts)

thanks, Richard

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use PHP to reproduce the Comet behavior. Like you said PHP isn’t the best choice because of a lot of memory management issues that are still widely there.

    However for small scale purposes (low-traffic) PHP will work just fine.

    There’s a lot of information on the web about Comet and how to use it with languages such as Python or Erlang (especially good because of its optimal concurrency behavior, but frankly I don’t know much about it).

    If you want to try out Python there’s a good question/answer on SO:
    Python Comet Server

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