<div dir="ltr">FastCGI is faster than mod_* in general, unless you're a python shop, then wsgi is probably better. It looks like the php-equivalent project is php-fpm.<br><br>FastCGI is highly optimized C-code specific to dishing out dynamic web requests.<br>mod_php is just the php interpreter embedded into apache.<br><br>Another nice thing about FastCGI is it lets you spawn/control multiple worker threads, so it tends to be better for scaling-out your app, and you can redirect traffic to workers that aren't necessarily on localhost and use apache as a faux load-balancing solution.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Keith Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com" target="_blank">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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Hi,<br>
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I am being told by our data center that FastCGI is less resource intensive than mod_php. I am being told this will help with the load put on the server by Drupal.<br>
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Any thoughts on this?<br>
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Thanks in advance!!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Keith<br>
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