About Flarum

Flarum is a delightfully simple discussion platform for your website. It's fast and easy to use, with all the features you need to run a successful community. It is designed to be:

• Fast and simple. No clutter, no bloat, no complex dependencies. Flarum is built with PHP so it’s quick and easy to deploy. The interface is powered by Mithril, a performant JavaScript framework with a tiny footprint.

• Beautiful and responsive. This is forum software for humans. Flarum is carefully designed to be consistent and intuitive across platforms, out-of-the-box.

• Powerful and extensible. Customize, extend, and integrate Flarum to suit your community. Flarum’s architecture is amazingly flexible, with a powerful Extension API.

Requirements

Dependency	Requirement
PHP	>= 7.2 Recommend PHP7+
Swoole	>= 2.0.12 No longer support PHP5 since 2.0.12 Recommend 4.3+

Installation (Flarum + Swoole)

You must have SSH access to a server with PHP 7.2+ and MySQL 5.6+, and install Composer.

Install Swoole

$ pecl install swoole

Install Project Flarum-S

$ composer create-project flarum/flarum flarum-s --stability=beta

Install Http Server Swoole for Flarum-S

$ composer require trint/flarum-s:dev-master
$ composer update -o
$ cp -rf vendor/trint/flarum-s/bin/ bin/
$ chmod 755 bin/flarum-s

Config ip, port

Change `bin/config.php`: listen_ip, listen_port

Commands Service

Command	Description
start	Start Http Server Flarum-S
stop	stop
restart	restart
reload	reload

Usage

$ cd bin/
$ ./flarum-s service start

        ___________.__
        \_   _____/|  | _____ _______ __ __  _____
         |    __)  |  | \__  \_  __ \  |  \/     \
         |     \   |  |__/ __ \|  | \/  |  /  Y Y  \
         \___  /   |____(____  /__|  |____/|__|_|  /
             \/              \/                  \/

Server         Name:      flarum-httpd
System         Name:      linux
PHP            Version:   7.3.3-1+ubuntu18.04.1+deb.sury.org+1
Swoole         Version:   4.3.1
Coroutine      Mode:      enabled
Listen         Addr:      127.0.0.1
Listen         Port:      9501
Reactor        Num:       4
Worker         Num:       4

Open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:9051 to validate you're up and running.

Benchmark

using 4 CPUs / 1 GB Memory / PHP 7.3 / Ubuntu 18.04.4 x64

Benchmarking Tool: wrk

wrk -t4 -c100 http://your.app

PHP7.3

$ cd public/
$ php -S 127.0.0.1:8080
$ wrk -t2 -c50 -d5s http://localhost:8080

Running 5s test @ http://localhost:8080
  2 threads and 50 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     1.07s   526.15ms   1.91s    56.52%
    Req/Sec     8.04      4.20    20.00     80.36%
  62 requests in 5.02s, 326.41KB read
  Socket errors: connect 0, read 62, write 0, timeout 39
Requests/sec:     10.35
Transfer/sec:     65.02KB

Swoole HTTP Server

wrk -t2 -c50 -d5s http://localhost:9501

Running 10s test @ http://localhost:9501
  2 threads and 50 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   807.75ms  225.06ms   1.91s    74.43%
    Req/Sec    27.83     17.37    70.00     51.72%
  266 requests in 5.11s, 1.81MB read
  Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 4
  Non-2xx or 3xx responses: 9
Requests/sec:     52.05
Transfer/sec:    362.00KB

Conclustion

4X time

[Code For Fun]

License

Flarum is open-source software licensed under the MIT License.