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Chapter 20. Custom Applications > Key Recommendations

20.12. Key Recommendations

  • Set sanity timers in CGIs.

  • Get some output from the CGI to the user right away.

  • Don't write CGIs in a shell-scripting language.

  • Daemonize CGIs.

  • FastCGI scales much better than CGI.

  • Use mod_perl if your CGIs are in Perl and your server is Apache.


  

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