His job was to keep people awake during the sermons (usually 2 to 3 hours in length) by using a long pole tipped with a brass knocker at one end to rap the sleeping men, and the other end was tipped with a rabbit's foot or feather for the women. People have fallen asleep in church for ages.
FastCGI is a binary protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server. FastCGI is a variation on the earlier Common Gateway Interface (CGI); FastCGI's main aim is to reduce the overhead associated with interfacing the web server and CGI programs, allowing a server to handle more web page requests at once.nstead of creating a new process for each request, FastCGI uses persistent processes to handle a series of requests. These processes are owned by the FastCGI server, not the web server.
This topic discusses how to enable FastCGI on your IIS 7 Web server. By using FastCGI instead of CGI to run your CGI applications, you can increase reliability and improve performance.For example, PHP traditionally runs on IIS either as an ISAPI extension or as a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) program.o deploy a FastCGI-enabled server. You can use the Web Platform Installer (Web PI) to easily install IIS, and applications that run on IIS. Because the Web PI installs the latest versions of available Web Platform offerings, with just a few simple clicks you can download and install any new tools or updates.