my understanding was that fastcgi is faster because uses persistent processes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI). It is faster than mod_php because it doesn't have to build and destroy processes as they come. If you are looking at making the switch, perhaps you should investigate nginx. It has a similar serving model like fastcgi, using php-fpm, and its smaller memory footprint makes it appealing. http://wiki.nginx.org/Drupal Eric On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Todd Millecam wrote: > > 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. > > FastCGI is highly optimized C-code specific to dishing out dynamic web > requests. > mod_php is just the php interpreter embedded into apache. > > 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. > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Keith Smith > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> 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. >> >> Any thoughts on this? >> >> Thanks in advance!! >> >> Keith >> >> -- >> Keith Smith >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- > Todd Millecam > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >