PHP IF Evaluation & Server Overhead

undoIT · 08-16-2009, 06:59 PM

How much server overhead there is when PHP if statements are evaluated, i.e. memory consumption and CPU usage? I've searched around and didn't find anything that definitively answered this question.

For example, if I have a WordPress blog and use a lot of if statements for each post summary on the home page, is this going to require a lot more server resources if the home page starts getting high traffic? And on pages where many posts are listed (i.e. category pages) , it seems like this could become an issue.

Or, is this something I shouldn't even be worrying about?

conor · 09-03-2009, 05:23 AM

I can't give you a definite answer but I know a company that hosted 200 low traffic websites on 6GB RAM.

They separated of the high volume sites like ones with 5,000+ hits a day would have their own machine with 1GB RAM.

zkiller · 09-07-2009, 09:25 AM

There really isn't a definitive answer to your question. It really depends on the complexity of the code in it's entirety, but your basic if statement is hardly worth mentioning.

08-16-2009, 06:59 PM	#1
undoIT Bronze Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 29	PHP IF Evaluation & Server Overhead How much server overhead there is when PHP if statements are evaluated, i.e. memory consumption and CPU usage? I've searched around and didn't find anything that definitively answered this question. For example, if I have a WordPress blog and use a lot of if statements for each post summary on the home page, is this going to require a lot more server resources if the home page starts getting high traffic? And on pages where many posts are listed (i.e. category pages) , it seems like this could become an issue. Or, is this something I shouldn't even be worrying about? __________________ Hostgator Coupon - Cheap and green web hosting Themebot - Free HTML Templates Internet Explorer 6 must die!

09-03-2009, 05:23 AM	#2
conor Gold Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ireland Posts: 349	I can't give you a definite answer but I know a company that hosted 200 low traffic websites on 6GB RAM. They separated of the high volume sites like ones with 5,000+ hits a day would have their own machine with 1GB RAM. __________________ Conor

09-07-2009, 09:25 AM	#3
zkiller Super Noob Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: position:relative Posts: 1,640	There really isn't a definitive answer to your question. It really depends on the complexity of the code in it's entirety, but your basic if statement is hardly worth mentioning. __________________ Stefan, the Post Master Track Devil - May the boost be with you!

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