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

To troubleshoot an issue of this kind, you'd have to:

• Use system logs, namely error logs: sorting them by error level
  and/or date to identify dates of the issue.
• Compare Windows updates in use on either system, one of them could be faulty.
• Compare software in use on either system, the setup of one of these could be faulty.

If that's the case, you'll want to uninstall the Windows update and/or the software that causes the issue, shutdown your server completely, then reinstall the update or software (to ensure a stable state during setup).

Tools that can help you troubleshoot this issue include the sysinternals suite: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb842062.aspx

Or more simply, open source VBS scripts to produce comparable lists of updates and applications on a system.