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Microsoft Releases FastCGI for IIS Under Go Live License

Oct 10, 2007   6 pm
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windows_logo 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.

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U.S. Ranks Low in Google Downtime Study

Sep 29, 2007   3 pm
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google_logo The U.S. ranks near the bottom in a global survey of downtime for the Google Web search site.

Among 32 key countries Google plays in locally, its home country of the United States came in near the bottom, in position 26, with 31 minutes of downtime from Sept. 1, 2006, to Sept. 1, 2007, according to Web performance survey results released Sept. 27 by Pingdom.

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