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Date:      Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:11:24 -1000
From:      "David J. Orman" <ormandj@corenode.com>
To:        Cody Baker <cody@wilkshire.net>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, David Rhodus <drhodus@machdep.com>, Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com>
Subject:   Re: CGI apps in C?
Message-ID:  <c89db6d51ed0.44b797fc@corenode.com>
In-Reply-To: <44B81BCC.7010201@wilkshire.net>
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Just use FastCGI with lighthttpd if you need performance under large amounts of traffic.

David

----- Original Message -----
From: Cody Baker <cody@wilkshire.net>
Date: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:33 pm
Subject: Re: CGI apps in C?

> If you're concerned about large traffic volume, you should give some
> serious considerations to mod_perl.  It, and select scripts, will 
> remainresident therefore avoiding all of the costly setup imposed 
> by CGI. 
> It's quick, well tested, and a pretty popular option.   Popularity  
> maysound trivial, but exploits get fixed in popular apps long 
> before those
> in obscure ones.  It can be a bit memory heavy, but memory is 
> cheap. 
> PHP is cake to program in and pretty useful, but it's SLOW and rather
> ugly to admin. 
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Cody Baker
> cody@wilkshire.net
> 
> 
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