# php-pm/php-pm

PPM is a process manager, supercharger and load balancer for modern PHP applications.

Repository: https://github.com/php-pm/php-pm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/php-pm
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: php7, symfony, psr7, application-server
Last push: 2023-12-08T21:41:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4573, "days_push": 999, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6548, forks 366 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.147448+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-server, web-framework, middleware, deployment
- domain: web-development, backend, performance, developer-tools
- platform: php, cli
- tags: process-manager, reactphp, load-balancer, php-fpm-alternative, application-server, symfony, laravel, linux, docker

## Member repositories
- php-pm/php-pm (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.147448+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:44:05.095083+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/php-pm/php-pm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.147448+00:00, sha cd955c142152)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.