PHP Accelerator

How much speed will you get from it

[satanclaus]

I'm considering using Zend's accelerator to speed up a php product I've been developing. I have no experience with this sort of tool and was wondering if it would be worth the time/money. My program currently has to make some external request, read/write some data to a database and correlate some data. Including some encoding via base64_encode which seems to take quite a few milliseconds itself.

Your experiences and knowledge in this matter are be greatly appreciated.

[carneddau]

Why don't you download the Free Evaluation and see if it makes much of a difference?

IMO if your server isn't particularly stressed I wouldn't bother with it. Also, if your scripts aren't very complex it also probably isn't going to have that much of an impact.

[satanclaus]

The scripts do have a good deal of complexity and the servers are going to be under heavy stress.