php fastcgi support - how do u do it?

[Almir Karic]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:58:36PM -0700, mike wrote:
> On 7/15/08, Marcos Neves <marcos.neves at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For a shared hosting, what are the advantages of php-fpm over mod_php?
> 
> You can setup a separate fastcgi pool for each user. That way if their
> scripts get exploited, the only files they'll be able to mess with are
> that user.

mod_suphp can do that as well.

> I'd say php-fpm is even more useful for shared hosting since you can
> easily define multiple pools (one for each user for instance) - that's
> how I use it right now. The other key benefit (apache-style process
> spawning) is coming soon, not quite finished yet. Between both of
> those, that takes care of my two key desires.

but is apache style process spawning really a good idea? i mean i'm
replacing apache with nginx because the idea of apache's scaling is
''thread/fork as much as you can, as soon as you can and not a
thread/process less'' :-)