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Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS Under Go Live License
FastCGI will ship in the upcoming Windows Server 2008 as a built-in IIS component for the first time
Microsoft has made the third beta release of FastCGI for Internet Information Services available under its free Go Live license, which means that customers can now deploy the production-quality release on Windows Server 2003.
FastCGI essentially allows IIS to reuse CGI (Common Gateway Interface) processes for multiple requests to PHP applications, helping improve the performance of PHP on Windows while maintaining reliability.
Microsoft’s Go Live license means the company will support customers who use this technology to build and deploy projects for production.
FastCGI, available as a free download from the IIS community site, will allow IT professionals to host PHP applications on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 with increased scalability and security, and the Go Live license gives hosting providers a new component for Microsoft’s Web server platform that enables popular application frameworks like PHP to be hosted in a high-performance and reliable manner.
The current betas of Windows Server 2008 include the FastCGI extension as a completely integrated feature of IIS 7. The new modular architecture introduced in IIS 7.0 will provide additional functionality for PHP applications by enabling them to take advantage of new managed code services.
