It’s very common that optimization and speed of a scripting language come from the language itself, but I was interested recently in the FastCGI concept to speed up web applications whatever their nature CGI, PHP, Ruby … etc.


Even that some of the developer’s ways to use FastCGI limited its capability to make PHP faster, there is many other that you may give a try to see a better performance. Many talk about a factor of 10 to speed up PHP applications, I think it’s worth to try even with a factor of 5.
We’ll post in details some experiments we made recently on many servers and websites and the different results we found. But the idea of FastCGI make me think about all the environment running a PHP application, that’s true to optimize it’s interesting to start from the beginning.
For more information
FastCGI project page

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