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cgit - A hyperfast web frontend for git repositories written in C.

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:24:24 +0000

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Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin | Jake Gold

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:10:06 +0000

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.

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Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:09:20 +0000

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.

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[Pythonmac-SIG] python module search path in Apache on OSX

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 18:01:54 +0000

Keep forgetting about this, but this is how you can make PYTHONPATH and DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH available to CGIs written in Python on Apache

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nms - web programs written by experts

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 02:33:18 +0000

"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.

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