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Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module

Posted by kdawson on from the smells-like-coexistence dept.

Marcy writes "Microsoft has just announced the final release of the IIS FastCGI module for IIS 5.1 (XP), 6 (2003), and 7 (2008). This FastCGI module was built with collaboration from Zend, the creators of PHP, and is intended to solve the CGI on Windows problem." It's free as in beer.

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  1. Re:Problem? by Saint+Stephen · · Score: 4, Informative

    "Forking" (launching) a process is much more expensive on Windows than it is on Linux. Windows NT is architected after VMS (in part because of Dave Cutler). Processes are expensive on windows.

  2. Re:Stop the insanity. by deniable · · Score: 4, Informative

    I was in a small shop where we already had IIS to run things like Outlook Web Access. IIS also made it easy to have integrated AD authentication and access controls, so we had single sign on.

    Rather than running another box or supporting a VM image to run apache, it's easier just to make do with IIS. The point of this article is that MS is making IIS play better for people from the PHP/fcgi side of things.

    We did however run the outside web server on apache on an ancient almost broken P166 and it ran well.

  3. Re:Rasmus Lerdorf must be pissed today by PHPfanboy · · Score: 5, Informative
    Hi, I work for Zend (not in Marketing dept.) - this issue comes up every time it's written in the press or other interviews. It's not how we market ourselves, and every time we're quoted as "the creators of PHP" Zeev and Andi get hauled over the coals by the PHP development community. It's not the first time and probably not the last time this has happened. For the record, this is how Zend markets itself:

    Zend is the PHP company.
    Businesses utilizing PHP know Zend as the place to go for PHP expertise and sound technology solutions. Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, two of Zend's founders, are key contributors to PHP and creators of the open source Zend Engine. Because of their internationally recognized authority, the company and its founders continue to play leadership roles in the PHP and open source communities, and are accountable for a central role in the explosive growth of PHP.
    Slighty different, I think you'll agree.
    Happy PHP'ing
    --
    29 mpg. YMMV.
  4. Re:Problem? by EvanED · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think it is somewhat more expensive...

    It's a lot more expensive. Some numbers MSR came up with while working on their research OS Singularity put process creation on Linux at ~700,000 cycles, just over 1 million on FreeBSD, and just under 5.4 million cycles on XP. Here's one source; slide 23.

    I'm not arguing against your main point; I'm just pointing out that there is actually a huge difference between process creation time on the different systems.