Depends on the application again. If it does something relatively CPU intense, then C(++) could give a big boost in performance. If it doesn't (like a forum system), then the difference is small.
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Depends on the application again. If it does something relatively CPU intense, then C(++) could give a big boost in performance. If it doesn't (like a forum system), then the difference is small.
Ugh. Stop asking that, CGI can mean either Perl, PHP, some other or native code (for example C++). PHP in most cases uses CGI (SAPI is an alternative, but I doubt it's used more).
CGI is a gateway interface, not a language. It allows you to use a script or program written in another language to be used in the web server. The most common option is to use CGI for Perl. But the...
Using Google's translation API makes sense. As the translating is then handled by Google's servers, it doesn't actually matter what you use. And also PHP can be pre-compiled (into bytecode), but not...
Historically doesn't matter because I'm talking about modern servers. I'm assuming their servers don't have an Intel Xeon 7400 processor, 12GB of RAM and SCSI hard drives.
OP, did I get it right...
RAM is pretty cheap nowadays so having 10GB-20GB RAM on a server is no problem. But nevertheless, most SQL databases don't cache almost any data due to the huge amount of data they process and the...
Well, I guess it depends on some other factors too. But the Apache module thing wouldn't be useful for a forum for the reason I mentioned earlier - most of the load time and CPU power goes to...
Running a forum with about 10000 people online at all times is no problem for a modern server. And I don't see much forums like that, so for a forum one server should do the job. But I guess we are...
It's pointless since 90% of the load time goes on SQL queries.