Hi Mike I am using a hosted environment and the hosting company doesn't give me access to the apache confing files and as far as I know neither the option to use include client httpd.conf sections so the proxy solution is not for me
Thank you for your reply PF On Jan 26, 5:04 pm, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:39 AM, PF4Pylons <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all > > > I was told by a programmer (I am not one :D ) that an application that > > runs Pylons via CGI is not going to be performant in a shared hosting > > environment and I may not be allowed to use it. As reason for poor > > performance the programmer indicated the fact the the server will have > > to spawn a new process each time a request comes. > > > Is that so? > > That's why people don't use CGI in production. But FastCGI was > designed specifically to overcome this. Pylons has several deployment > options: ProxyPass, mod_wsgi, FastCGI, etc. These are all similar in > performance (maybe not identical, but certainly better than CGI). I > would start with ProxyPass because it's the most straightforward > (just connect Apache to your existing PasteHTTPServer), but it's worth > exploring all of them and seeing which one best meets your needs. > > I haven't used FastCGI so I can't answer your specific questions on it. > > -- > Mike Orr <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-discuss?hl=en.
