There are an increasing number of Platform as a Service options available for developers, so it’s no surprise that Zend have joined the party. PHP Cloud is a public preview at the moment, but it already offers key features such as: MySQL access, source code management via Git, deployment to other cloud services, and SFTP access.

In this article, I’ll show you how to set up a CakePHP installation in an application container within PHP Cloud. Along the way, you’ll see how to access MySQL, deploy code, and use SFTP from your FTP client to access the application container.

People everywhere complain that Wordpress is slow, or that they can’t survive a digg. They die if they get more than 10,000 visitors a day, their hosting providers ban them for using too many resources, and they cry because they have to purchase expensive hosting plans. If this describes your plight, before you run over to Survive Digg hosting and plunk down even more money, take a look at your Wordpress setup and LAMP stack. You can make them better.

eAccelerator is a free open-source PHP accelerator & optimizer. It increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

Zenphoto is a standalone gallery CMS that just makes sense and doesnt try to do everything and your dishes. We hope you agree with our philosophy: simpler is better. Dont get us wrong though Zenphoto really does have everything you need for web media gallery management.

Actually Zenphoto is more than just a gallery for images! It also features multimedia support for audio and video and is even capable of running your entire portfolio website including a news section (blog) and custom pages. This makes Zenphoto the ideal CMS for illustrators, artists, designers, photographers, film makers and musicians.