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Are you sure that it's only due to the API and not perhaps to the database ?
Dec 17, 2022
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Laravel API calls slow
Hello,
i'm currently trying to figure out why my Laravel REST API which is running on a windows machine and WAMP Stack ist taking at least 150 ms to respond - i tried it with a simple "ping" which is responding a "pong"
public function pingServer() {
return "pong";
}
The controller has no auth, so pretty plain, and when trying this via postman sometimes it really takes over a second than 150 ms, then 200 ms, 300 ms, 200ms, 100ms, 400ms ... and so on ... after 30 times of calling this simple service i nerver got under 150 ms and it was more like 200-300 ms ... and sometimes just 1.21 secs or so,
I tried to optimize the Apache 2.4.39 inside the Wamp installation, changed to PHP 8.x but nothing really helped a lot - where could or should i start to optimize these calls since there are timecritical calls there.
The System is a Windows 10 with 32 GB RAM and there is not really much going on so i doubt it is a memory problem.
Kind regards Andy
Level 102
How about using a Linux server instead? Php was built to run on Linux so I would imagine that might help a bit :)
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@Sinnbeck I'd be curious to see what the LAMP stack comparison response time is
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Level 63
@kalvinmizzi Better ;).
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@Sinnbeck definitly - i would rater use linux but our client mostly uses windows machines ...
Level 102
@worgor then maybe look into iis. It's not made for php but at least it's made for production. Might be rather expensive though
Level 73
The tools WAMP, XAMPP or MAMP are not built for production, they are for development, and that makes them a bit slow, if you really want to run a proper WAMP you should install and configure the pieces you need.
However I really do recommend using a LAMP or LEMP stack.
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ubuntu-laravel-php-nginx/
https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/install-laravel-on-ubuntu-for-apache/
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@Tray2 So a single Apache + PHP + MySQL should be faster on Windows? I've not tried it out since normally we deploy this Stuff on Linux ... Thank you very much!
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@worgor It should be yes, since all the bundles have some stuff that isn't used in prod, The best would be to deploy to a linux host though.
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