Kevin wrote:

> I'm curious how others have handled this problem.

Use what you have efficiently. If you're using old-fashioned
technology like CGI or LAMP, upgrade your software infrastructure!

See http://www.apachetutor.org/dev/reslist for a discussion of the
subject. The principles - a far more scalable architecture than
CGI or LAMP - still hold, although the software referenced in the
article was rendered obsolete by the integration of native SQL
support[1] in APR/Apache.

[1] the MySQL driver is separate due to licensing issues: it's GPL and
so can't be distributed from apache.org. But once you've downloaded it,
it's as simple as building "--with-mysql".

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Nick Kew