PHP factor 30 performance difference from Linux to Windows

Question

Our team is working is developing WordPress plugins and provides hosted instances on a couple of independent servers. Our WordPress installation is managed by Git, all serve

Answer 1

Use NGINX and FCGI for PHP via UNIX socket (not TCP socket).

http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample

You will notice immediately speed improvements even without accelerators. Additionally, above setup would have much lower memory usage footprint.