{"id":123,"date":"2014-09-22T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rackbank.com\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2026-01-15T23:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:00:06","slug":"how-hiphop-server-helps-in-increasing-the-php-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rackbank.com\/blog\/how-hiphop-server-helps-in-increasing-the-php-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"How HipHop Server Helps in Increasing the PHP Performance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style: italic; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #0073aa; padding: 15px; border-radius: 6px;\">\n<p><b>TL;DR: How HipHop Server (HHVM) Improves PHP Performance<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is an open-source PHP execution engine developed by Facebook.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It boosts PHP performance by converting PHP code into C++ and then native binary, enabling faster execution.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook reported up to 9\u00d7 higher web request throughput and around 50% performance improvement using HipHop over the traditional Zend PHP engine.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Running applications in compiled form improves security and makes reverse engineering harder, protecting intellectual property.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ideal for high-traffic applications running across multiple servers where performance and scalability are critical.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eliminates the need for multiple language specialists, as PHP applications can run efficiently without rewrites.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limitation: HipHop servers can run only one application per server, so hosting multiple websites on the same box isn\u2019t possible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Rackbank, one of the few prestigious <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rackbank.com\/blog\/build-or-outsource-datacenter\/#:~:text=What%20is%20a,of%20data%20storage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>data centers<\/strong><\/a> in India<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> is going to launch Hip Hop servers with the capacity and services equivalent to Facebook server. Hip Hop virtual machine (HHVM) is a virtual machine developed and open sourced by Facebook in order to process and execute programs written in PHP. Facebook has observed a 9 times increase in web request throughput after its integration of Hip Hop instead of Zend PHP engine + A PC. Hip Hop technology is used to convert PHP code into C++ code and further into a binary code that can run on a native server easily which effectively helps in empowering the dedicated servers. PHP is definitely a widely used language for developing high level web applications and now when its conversion into other languages becomes simple then one does not require separate developers for this purpose.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Facebook has proved to experience 50% increase in performance due to Hip Hop server and also the ability to initiate an application on the web server in a compiled format ensures that reverse engineering is more difficult and protects intellectual property. Anyone who\u2019s running an application one more than two servers will highly benefit from this server as their web application is experiencing high traffic and necessities increase. The only disadvantage of Hip Hop server is that Hip hop runs only one application at a time therefore, cannot run two websites on a box. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL;DR: How HipHop Server (HHVM) Improves PHP Performance HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) is an open-source PHP execution engine developed by Facebook. It boosts PHP performance by converting PHP code into C++ and then native binary, enabling faster execution. 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