PHP-FPM pools: ondemand vs. dynamic

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  • slickstack

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    I know this page is like 5 years old and I cannot comment anymore (closed):

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14084265

    ......I never heard about that mod_PHP popularity was rising again compared with FPM pools. Is that totally fake news or that was true temporarily during 2017 only?

    My understand that even cPanel hosting is still mostly using PHP-FPM with Apache and .htaccess (2021). Is there any case that using mod_PHP or disabling .htaccess can be faster than PHP-FPM or that is totally wrong.

    For Nginx I know FPM is really the only option. And lots of arguments about ondemand, I see a lot of tutorials saying dynamic is better, but on this config file (PHP 7.4) and it says

    https://github.com/littlebizzy/slickstack/blob/master/modules/php-fpm/7.4/www-conf.txt

    "ondemand is best for the majority of VPS servers (contrary to many online tutorials) .......only incredibly high traffic servers should use dynamic after tuning settings?

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