As I already mentioned in the article Configuring Apache with PHP-FPM in CentOS/RHEL 7, PHP-FPM is a much more efficient to handle large volumes of queries. In this article we will see how to configure it in Ubuntu.
PHP is one of the most widespread web programming languages on the Internet. There are currently three versions in active support, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 which was released on November 28, 2019. It is advisable to always use the most stable version new, in this case it is 7.4, however, we can install any of these three versions on our system.