Marco d'Itri, 2014-12-04 23:58:58 +0100 :

> On Dec 04, Christoph Anton Mitterer <cales...@scientia.net> wrote:
>
>> > While using many more times the resources. You obviously have no idea of 
>> > the challenges of providing secure web hosting for non-trivial 
>> > quantities of web sites.
>> So what do you want to imply would be secure?
> The point is not just "secure", but "secure and scalable".
> And sadly the only good solution that fits this criteria is php-cgi with
> some kind of uid-changing wrapper.

  There's also libapache2-mpm-itk, which works just fine with PHP.

[...]

>> > FastCGI is another thing that almost nobody can afford when hosting 
>> > a significant number of web sites.
>> Why not?
> Because RAM is expensive and you cannot keep tens or even thousands of 
> fastcgi processes around waiting for a request.

  MPM-ITK does the setuid based on the request, so you get a (small)
performance penalty but you keep a reasonable number of processes
waiting for requests.

Roland.
-- 
Roland Mas

You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tuna fish.
  -- in the tunefs(8) manual page.


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