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Configuring PHP-FPM For High Network Traffic

Jake Casto on January 23, 2018

Maintaining a constant response time on a server with high network traffic while using PHP is probably the hardest & most annoying thing I've...

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Muhammad Azaz Qadir • Nov 12 '18

Manually configuring PHP-FPM with nginx and apache is quite difficult for someone who doesn't have sysadmin experience. They might not even know what is php-fpm. I think it is better to use some tool that automates this process or at least makes it easier.

Jake Casto • Nov 14 '18

This article wasn’t directed at users who don’t know what PHP-FPM is.

Wuyi Adepoju • May 14 '19

Got curious with your comment, what are the automation tools?

Jake Casto • May 14 '19

^ I’d like to know them as well. I use Laravel Forge to provision the server and setup PHP-FPM but I still make configuration changes.

reedzhao • Jan 3 '20

Your article is full of factual errors about dynamic,ondemand,static. Please fix them.

RTFM:

static  - a fixed number (pm.max_children) of child processes;
ondemand - no children are created at startup. Children will be forked when new requests will connect.
dynamic - the number of child processes are set dynamically based on the following directives.

Luis Siqueira • Feb 6 '19

What is your setup?
RAM and CPU?

Jake Casto • Feb 7 '19

Really depends on the project, I’d always run at least 4GB of RAM and 2 CPU’s. That works great for small-med projects, I believe the server that I referenced in this post had 18GB of RAM and 8 cpu’s I’m not 100% sure.

Adam_Kramer ( Test Bank and Solution Manual) • May 3 '20

wht is the best value for

PHP-FPM Pool
Options Max Requests =

Process Idle =

Timeout Max Children=