FastCGI & PHP on IIS

May 27, 2003

PHP Everywhere: Robust and High Performance PHP with IIS: Using FastCGI

“28 May 2003: In my latest benchmarks, it appears that FastCGI is faster than ISAPI also (from 10-100%).

FastCGI is highly recommended for heavily-loaded IIS web-sites running PHP.”

Ain’t that an understatement…

I recently had the experience of moving a big pipeful of traffic to a PostNuke implementation on IIS 5 / PHP 4.31.

Fortunately, most of the traffic was during off-peak hours, as the server was getting flogged heavily with CGI starts (ISAPI PHP supposedly being not ready for prime-time yet).

Moving to FastCGI, the same server handles the same traffic without a ripple.

Nifty.

Recommended.

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