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Fastcgi Or Modpython

Pro FastCGI

• only python-reqeusts get python-interpreter
  • using ModPython any web-request gets an interpreter.
  • much less memory-consumption
• fast startup for additional FastCGI-processes (if needed)
  
• http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/fastcgi/

FastCGI operates on a client-server model, and in most cases you'll be starting the FastCGI process on your own. Your Web server (be it Apache, lighttpd, or otherwise) only contacts your Django-FastCGI process when the server needs a dynamic page to be loaded. Because the daemon is already running with the code in memory, it's able to serve the response very quickly.

Like mod_python, FastCGI allows code to stay in memory, allowing requests to be served with no startup time. Unlike mod_python (or mod_perl), a FastCGI process doesn't run inside the Web server process, but in a separate, persistent process.

• An Ideal Python Web Programming Environment