Posted by Michael Vilain on 12/18/30 11:52

In article <1152365690.253421.109840@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
howachen@gmail.com wrote:

> hi,
>
> which package you perfer?
>
> mod_php on apache is okay but some people said fastcgi version of php
> is faster, is it true?
>
> thanks...

Depends. (That's the standard answer for ambiguous questions which don't
have sufficient technical details to provide an informed opinion).

Specifically, it depends on the environment (hardware and software)
you're running on. OS and version? Hardware platform--CPU, memory,
disk? Shared web server or dedicated? What sort of web application are
you running? How much traffic is it expected to handle currently? In 6
months? 1 year? 3 years?

It's my understanding that fastcgi forks a process for each connection,
running in the context of web server. mod_php runs as a thread, allowing for
it to run concurrently with other processes on multi-CPU systems.

--
DeeDee, don't press that button! DeeDee! NO! Dee...

[Back to original message]