supercain wrote:And what about wamp? better or worse than zend server?
You can't generalize webserver stacks in words like better or worse. That depends on the requirements. All of them have their right to exist.
WAMP is not much different to XAMPP. It is a webserver stack not made for production environments. In comparison with XAMPP it has the advantage that you can change versions of the single components with modules but for the cost of portability and stability.
supercain wrote:i run a php forum (Invision Power Board) and no host seems to be suitable to run it smoothly. I get about 50 users within 15 minutes so i dont think thats too many but in shared hostings they throttled me all the time because they said i was using too many resources so i switched to VPS with 2GB RAM but still i had too many server downs.
Board scripts itself normaly doesn't have that high resource requirements, exept you use some addons which permanently produce requests, like chats or games.
Would be helpful to know which resource it used that much (traffic, cpu, ram, hdd) and if the VPS downs are relating to the resource use. Too many unknowns.
supercain wrote:now i need a server software capable to manage many web connections and i just found out xammp is not.
XAMPP as well as WAMP and Zend base on well known single components which (if well configured and with the sufficient hardware) can handle several hundred if not thousand of unique users the same time (depending on duration and intensity of the requests). Thats not the reason why XAMPP is not the correct stack for you. But thats a generalization too because of all the unknowns.
I am beginning to think that you simply just don't want to understand. I thought i have explained it as clear as i am able too. English is not my first language, so maybe that's the reason. Because of that this will be my last reply on that topic. Maybe someone else is willing and able to make it clear to you.
There are hosting offers especially for Invision Power Board which can be found with the help of google. Maybe you give one of them a chance.
best wishes anyway,
Altrea