Important! Here’s the specification for FastCGI. As this is a binary interface, it is plenty good to write C programs that use FastCGI. Also, it is recommended to write an entire web server and active code in C so that the system is as portable as possible.
20180117/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCGI
20180117/https://web.archive.org/web/20160119141816/http://www.fastcgi.com/drupal/node/6?q=node%2F22
More web server protocols? SCGI? Cherokee web server? Verdict: SCGI is a no-go because it doesn’t support a C language binding, at least that’s what it looks like.
20180122/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Common_Gateway_Interface
20180122/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_%28Webserver%29
20180122/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem
But, honestly, the other creepy thing. The FastCGI website/domain is no longer live on the modern Internet. Surely if it were still an important modern-day Internet standard, the site would still be up, right? It seems that the world of web development has since moved on, away from the CGI style of server-side dynamic content. Now, the modern standard for server-side dynamic content seems to essentially write a web server from scratch in the desired programming language and slap a traditional web server as a reverse proxy on front. These modern frameworks are called Django, Ruby on Rails, Lua, and so on. Yes, being reinventions, they repeat some of the same old mistakes already solved in the older systems, but they sure are popular for the present.
Well, anyways, what else was I going to say. It still works for now, just that all development effort is basically discontinued in that category.
20180122/DuckDuckGo does anyone still use fastcgi
20180122/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5955941/does-anyone-know-what-happened-to-the-official-fastcgi-website
closed as off topic by Jeff Atwood May 11 ‘11 at 4:50
Yep, the Microsoft head of this website himself closed this as off-topic. That let’s you know what his opinion of FastCGI is.
“FastCGI – The Forgotten Treasure.” For sure, you can say that again.
20180122/http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgi/
Now, this one is interesting. Apache can be faster than Nginx for dynamic content. For static content, however, Nginx is the fastest.
20180123/http://www.eschrade.com/page/why-is-fastcgi-w-nginx-so-much-faster-than-apache-w-mod_php/