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Since it is the responsibility of the web server software to look for any incoming requests, delegate what the request is trying to accomplish to the PHP engine, and finally send a response, a portion of the measured speed of our PHP application is tightly coupled with the performance of your web server software. Therefore, we need to prevent the web server from slowing down our application by eliminating unnecessary processing.
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© 2010 by Armando Padilla and Tim Hawkins
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Padilla, A., Hawkins, T. (2010). Chapter 6 Choosing the Right Web Server. In: Pro PHP Application Performance. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2899-8_6
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