<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Although I'm not aware of the details, I understand that FastCGI is much faster than CGI (it does not spawn a new process for every incoming request), and DreamHost does support FastCGI. I've actually compiled PHP5, with eAccelerator and a bunch of other things and am running it as FastCGI, so I'm very sure it *does* work. Unfortunately, their MySQL servers are so darn slow that it just doesn't work nicely... But that's another issue.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Wim Leers</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 24, 2007, at 23:09 , Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/07, <B class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Griffiths</B> <<A href="mailto:anisotropic@gmail.com">anisotropic@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 3/24/07, Khalid Baheyeldin <<A href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> Agreed. I hope the landscape changes in favor of PHP5, but I am not<BR>> holding my breath.<BR><BR>I think, er, actually I *know* that this issue has less to do with <BR>Linux distros and more to do with shared hosts. I chose dreamhost<BR>because not only do they have a choice of php versions, they even let<BR>you build your own if you want to.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>Yes, Dreamhost allows compiling your own version, however for any site <BR>with non-trivial amount of traffic it is useless. The reason is that they allow <BR>you to compile your own as a CGI, which is very very inefficient (Linux forks <BR>a new process in realtime for every incoming request). <BR><BR>Here is an old article on this <A href="http://baheyeldin.com/click/389/5">http://baheyeldin.com/click/389/5</A><BR clear="all"><BR>So, it is really not an option.<BR>-- <BR><A href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</A> <BR><A href="http://2bits.com">http://2bits.com</A><BR>Drupal development, customization and consulting.</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>