php-pm/php-pm

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

PHP-PM is a process manager, load balancer, and performance accelerator for PHP applications built on ReactPHP. It keeps bootstrapped framework instances (Symfony, Laravel, Drupal, Zend) resident in memory across requests, eliminating per-request bootstrap overhead.

Use cases

• speed up symfony application performance
• replace php-fpm with a faster php application server
• run laravel app with in-memory workers
• load balance php worker processes
• hot reload php code during development
• serve php app without nginx php-fpm setup

When to choose

• you run a Symfony or Laravel app and need significantly better throughput than PHP-FPM
• you want an integrated process manager and load balancer for PHP workers
• you want hot-code reload and static file serving during development

When to avoid

• your application or its dependencies are not memory-resident safe (leaks global state between requests)
• you rely on frameworks not supported by its HttpKernel-style bootstraps
• you need a project with frequent updates and broad community maintenance

Facets

application · maturity maintenance

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