"Johan Kohler" <ko*****@ukzn.ac.za> wrote:
I'm using CGIHTTPServer (via its test() method) to test some CGI on my
Windoze 98 box. I find that the execution is very slow. Is there
anything I can do to make sure I'm getting the best performance out of
CGIHTTPServer?
Compared to what, and on what hardware?
CGI is not a rip-roaring performance demon on any platform, but
CGIHTTPServer is designed to be convenient more than fast. It isn't going
to do as well as a native server.
The key question you need ask is this: is it fast enough? If you're doing
a web page for internal use that is only going to get a hundred hits a day,
who cares if each page takes 5 seconds to render? If you're doing 10,000
hits a day, you need to choose something other than Windows 98.
There are some other options. Microsoft has Personal Web Server for Win98,
although I think it's awfully hard to configure. thttpd and xitami are
good lightweight web servers.
Apache works quite well in Windows, but I don't think it is very happy on
Windows 98.
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