WordPress Is in Trouble

Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by jjk7 on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:58PM (#42689196)

That's just CGI. You could theoretically do the same with any other language, but PHP is just the most popular.

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by greggman7 on Monday January 13, 2025 @04:10PM (#42689391)

PHP integrates with the server. It does not have the spawn a new process per request like CGI

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by Suppafly on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:34PM (#42690421)

I don't understand the distinction you're trying to make.

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by nicce on Monday January 13, 2025 @05:58PM (#42690691)

The difference in resource consumption is huge.

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by Nectar0516 on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:14AM (#42693933)

Not having to spawn a new process greatly decreases the time it takes to process a request, which greatly increases the amount of requests you can serve with a given amount of hardware.

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Re:WordPress Is in Trouble by jopsen on Monday January 13, 2025 @11:38PM (#42693705)

I think dreamhost runs php as fcgi.

I'm actually not sure that fcgi is that bad, even for other languages, but most shared hosts will probably limit what you can do in terms of resources.

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