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  • I am purely talking server side here, I think you misunderstood. When you connect to a PHP page, the PHP file gets parsed, optimized, run and cached. Are there any webservers that just launch a script and when a user connect to a page it sends an event to that script saying the user is accessing a page and it is expecting output. Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 20:18
  • I think this is how node.js works. nodejs.org Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 20:29
  • Anything that runs in a FastCGI context, apache modules or as an application server runs this way. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_server Commented Sep 3, 2013 at 20:57
  • Sharing your research helps everyone. Tell us what you've tried and why it didn’t meet your needs. This demonstrates that you’ve taken the time to try to help yourself, it saves us from reiterating obvious answers, and most of all it helps you get a more specific and relevant answer. Also see How to Ask Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 5:17
  • @gnat All I've done is Google'd "Event Driven Server" and "CGI Alternatives". None of these returned any relevant results. Commented Sep 4, 2013 at 14:23