HipHop Support

[duajanuari]

Hi,

It seems HipHop support is nice, they have prebuilt packages, and perform quite better than php5-fpm. Not much changing codes I guess.

Here, take a look at this: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki#installing-pre-built-packages-for-hhvm

[rahul286]

Yep. HipHop is on list. We will be putting it on rtcamp.com server later this month. If it works there, we will test it on few more servers on different website.

If all goes well, we will be happy to add it to EasyEngine in future. :-)

[rahul286]

Related: https://twitter.com/MiteshShah05/status/456444758529814528

[duajanuari]

hello, that @hmd on twitter is me, how i install hhvm is quite simple, just install hhvm from prebuilt packages and stop php5-fpm service.

if you wanna take a look my droplet at digital ocean which hhvm installed, i'd happy to add your public key :)

[ovizii]

How does droplet sharing work? Can I clone yours somehow?
I'm just busy with one of my own test-droplets, gave up on hhvm because I installed Debian 32bit and apparently they only have packages for 64bit so far...

[rahul286]

@ovizii thanks for info on 32-bit

easyenigne supports 32-bit as well so if we need to support hhvm then we will either have to maintain 2 different install scripts internally or force everyone to use 64-bit. Both are not good.

We are installing hhvm today on few servers manually. We will takes notes of our experience. If all goes well, we can make it default in easyengine.

[shaneholloman]

I have functional EE install @MiteshShah setup on Unbuntu 14.04 if you'd like me to clone it for you? Just me know and I will spin it up now...@MiteshShah pub-key is already installed to it

[ovizii]

I didn't find this info anywhere but I got a dependency problem with apt-get on Debian 7 32bit so I checked the repos:

http://dl.hhvm.com/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-i386/Packages
vs
http://dl.hhvm.com/debian/dists/wheezy/main/binary-amd64/Packages

[rahul286]

@shaneholloman Thanks for offer but setup is not a problem.

By believe anything goes into easyengine should be tested on rtcamp.com first. Its less painful to break own sites rather than others. ;-)

Just some time back, I came to know about hhvm doesn't support 32-bit. There is also some thready suggesting hhvm doesn't play nicely with non-mysql databases.

On wordpress sites, there are so many themes and plugins and I just want to make sure hhvm doesn't create any issue for atleast some top themes and plugins.

So here is the flow (for hhvm and every stuff like this gets added into easyengine):

1. Install and test on our test/staging server
2. Install and test on our on production server (which runs rtcamp.com)
3. Install and test on our clients test/staging server
4. Install and test on our clients production server

Each step usually takes a week. Sometimes more.

It may sound bit conservative approach but even after this, we see people running into issues.

In meanwhile, if you come across any issue or special notes related to hhvm, please share.

We need to ensure 32-bit and 64-bit support for atleast Ubuntu 12.04/14.04 and Debian 6/7.

[rahul286]

@ovizii https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/wiki#installing-pre-built-packages-for-hhvm has better info.

I see 32-bit and Debian 6 are not supported.

I personally don't use 32-bit anywhere. Not on servers with lower RAM.

Does anybody here use 32-bit?

[shaneholloman]

I use 64bit only

[rahul286]

Sorry for accidentally closing this. Reopend now.