Jimmy Wales wrote:
I, too, can vouch for FastCGI. We run tons of stuff through it on Bomis. It's the bomb. Of course, changing Wikipedia from php/mysql to perl fastcgi/mysql would be a major undertaking at this point, and reports from around the web suggest strongly that php is fast, particularly when persistency is used (as we do).
FastCGI would be a step back for Wikipedia. PHP is better. FastCGI was an improvement for me, because I was running old CGI.
Plain old CGI is 1994. FastCGI is 1996/1998. PHP3 is 1999. PHP4 is 2000. - or something like that.