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Pure-PHP Web Server. No NGinX or PHP-FPM needed. Handle over 100x more traffic instead!

16 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 9 stories, 7 comments · first 2026-07-20 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. …process can take around 8ms ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19005586 ) When I was building https://github.com/Qbix/webserver in PHP, I was faced with forking a new process per request. I implemented fork-per-request at first,…
    comment by EGreg · 2026-10-12 · in A Modern Web App in C
  2. …will immediately have a reaction: “why PHP, it’s so old”. So I updated the github to answer that: https://github.com/Qbix/webserver Again, this is MIT licensed, and open source. On Reddit, the situation was even worse. Lots of upvotes at…
    comment by EGreg · 2026-09-28 · in Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps (2025)
  3. Alright, so version 1.3 has a much shorter README: https://github.com/Qbix/webserver What do you think?
    comment by EGreg · 2026-09-20 · in I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world
  4. …binaries you can download for Linux and MacOS that can contain your entire web application: https://github.com/Qbix/webserver Originally it was much faster than php-fpm, but now it is also faster than even the fastest PHP runtimes. And…
    comment by EGreg · 2026-09-20 · in I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world
  5. There are very clear signs this was mostly built by an LLM. Just an example: https://github.com/Qbix/webserver#%EF%B8%8F-architecture misaligned lines, the commit history, etc.
    comment by thomasmg · 2026-09-19 · in I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world
  6. …all! PS: I very much appreciate constructive feedback. Your suggestions have been incorporated: https://github.com/Qbix/webserver/commit/618638ecdc9097722fd...
    comment by EGreg · 2026-07-20 · in Standalone webserver written in pure PHP. No more need for nginx, php-fpm, etc.
  7. …instead of 5 fully qualified references. [1] https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-pad.php [2] https://github.com/Qbix/webserver/blob/main/src/Q/Evented/Re...
    comment by mschuster91 · 2026-07-20 · in Standalone webserver written in pure PHP. No more need for nginx, php-fpm, etc.