Platform-as-a-Service pro provoz aplikací v PHP

There are numerous web applications written in PHP language, most of whose requirements exceed common shared hosting offerings. This work deals with using Platform-as-a-Service solutions for running PHP applications. The advantages and disadvantages of PHP Platform-as-a-Service solutions are discussed in the first part of this work along with their effect on applications' architecture. The middle part compares available platforms with regard to their properties, functions and price models. The last part illustrates steps that have to be taken in order to accommodate applications' code for running in a cloud environment, moreover it demonstrates some of the advantages of cloud based web applications. The contribution of this work is in summarizing different aspects of cloud based PHP applications and a demonstration of running such an application.