[support] FastCGI vs mod_php for Drupal

[Keith Smith]

Thank you to everyone who replied.  I talked with a Drupal sys admin and 
he told me to make three changes:

1) FastCGI
2) Up the memached cache to 96m
3) xcache.

I did not change to FastCGI.  Only tried #2 and #3.  On a vps with 2 
cores and 4G RAM, page loads went from a minute to a second. I was very 
impressed.

Thanks for everyone's feedback!!


On 2014-12-15 14:05, Jamie Booth wrote:
> My personal experience is that fast cgi is much faster I've used in
> fairly big traffic sites, even a Godaddy one which runs php as
> fastcgi. There are a number of items that you cant use with fastcgi
> which promotes it's speed. For example, you can't use "upload
> progress". Other items you cannot use also promote to it's potential
> speed gains depending on site-resource needs.
> 
> _Jamie Booth_
> 
>  On 12/15/2014 01:34 PM, Keith Smith wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Any thoughts on FastCGI being less resource intensive than mod_php?
>> 
>> Any reason not to use FastCGI on a server running a moderately large
>> 
>> Drupal website with a decent amount of page views?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any insight.
>> 
>> Keith

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Keith Smith