FastCGI vs mod_php for Drupal

[Eric Cope]

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 <tyggna at gmail.com> 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 <techlists at phpcoderusa.com>
> 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
>>
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