While PHP is very popular, it unfortunately doesn’t perform as some of its competitors. One of the ways to make things faster is to write PHP Extensions in C++. In this post we will describe two different ways developers can solve this problem and the milage you might get from either model may vary.
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If you don’t like EC2 you have an option to move your app to a new vendor. But if you don’t like GAE  (Google app engine) there aren’t any solutions which can replace GAE easily.
AppScale might change that.
AppScale is an open-source implementation of the Google AppEngine (GAE) cloud computing interface from the RACELab at UC [...]