Re: Ada/GNAT/AWS-friendly web hosting

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 09:01:32 +0200, Stéphane Rivière wrote:

> We use FastCGI with Nginx to host tons of Wordpress web sites via
> PHP_FPM. FastCGI allows us to implement an extremely high-performance
> FastCGI cache. Caching is essential for slow and interpreted PHP
> applications and/or high-traffic applications, whatever the language
> used.

I would use the server-side proxy approach.

I see that FastCGI is basically an alternative to this, using a special 
protocol to communicate with the proxy, instead of just regular HTTP. But 
when I discovered that the “official website” (fastcgi.com) disappeared 
off the Web some years ago, I decided that the whole concept was becoming 
obsolescent and so best avoided.

Also, it appears FastCGI doesn’t support WebSockets. Whereas server-side 
proxying does. Another point in favour of the latter.