{"id":76,"date":"2006-04-05T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T21:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2006-04-05T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T02:27:58","slug":"java-hosting-is-fragile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2006\/java-hosting-is-fragile\/","title":{"rendered":"Java&#8217;s dirty little secret:  Java web hosting is fragile."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"46\" alt=\"PHP vs Java - is Java really more stable?\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/UserFiles\/Image\/php_v_java.gif\" width=\"234\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When people think of Java, they think of some mighty indestructible language\/environment that never goes down &#8211; well at least less than other platforms like PHP or .NET. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>REALITY CHECK<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>After running my own servers for 6 years (IIS with Resin) with few troubles, I moved hosting to outside sources. I had to go through several hosting companies before I found one that could <strong>even run my simple POJO based applications!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Now after a&nbsp;year has passed, my experience with shared Java hosting can be summarized: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tomcat seems to go down at least once every 7-14 days. <\/li>\n<li>Contrast this to PHP &#8211; never goes down. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>FINAL COMMENTS<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The Java community tends to dismiss PHP as some scrappy scripting language that can&#8217;t be counted on &#8230; I must confess, I used to think that too. <\/p>\n<p>Now after a year of using both Java based and PHP based applications, I have personally found PHP to be much more stable and reliable. I am actually nervous that my Java applications (and Tomcat) will fail regularly and am moving to migrate everything to PHP. <\/p>\n<p>I have no axe to grind, just speaking the truth based on my experience. <\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook (The Web Design Heretic) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people think of Java, they think of some mighty indestructible language\/environment that never goes down &#8211; well at least less than other platforms like PHP or .NET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}