It doesn't seem very portable either. No server operating systems can run it.Originally posted by stovellp
Its one drawback,
Kidding.
SSI is fairly simple. Just parse any .shtml files for those commands that you can find just about anywhere. CGI can involve running the script, but that's slow (especially on windows) since it has to load the perl/php interpreter into memory first. I think mod_perl involves preloading everything.