cgit - A hyperfast web frontend for git repositories written in C.
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin | Jake Gold
https://jacob.gold/posts/serving-200-million-requests-with-cgi-bin/
Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to serve 2400+ requests per second or 200M+ requests per day.
It’s almost never going to be the best choice these days, but it’s definitely viable.
Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/#atom-everything
Maybe we should start coding web applications like it's 1998, albeit with Go and Rust!
To clarify, I don't think most people should do this. I just think it's interesting that it's not as bad an idea as it was ~25 years ago.
[Pythonmac-SIG] python module search path in Apache on OSX
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2003-February/007253.html
Keep forgetting about this, but this is how you can make PYTHONPATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH available to CGIs written in Python on Apache
nms - web programs written by experts
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/about.html
"nms is a set of web programs that are intended as drop-in replacments for the scripts at Matt's Script Archive." Wow, someone actually did it.