I’ve been playing a little on my cPanel hosting trying to get maximum speed while also enforcing security at running php scripts

I first started with security running mod_suphp and while it worked fine it lacked the speed of the DSO php (mod_php)

so I read a thing or two about fastcgi and enabled it

I’m pleasantly surprised by the speed of the hosting

each user got its own persistent php application running requests (actually it’s limited to 500 php requests per php5 process by MaxRequestsPerProcess 500 directive)

I’m keeping an eye about the memory consumption but I hope I’ll be able to keep running with this setup

and while I got php running as the actuall cPanel user, apache is still running as nobody for other requests… hmmm… I’m using apache 2.2 with MPM Prefork… maybe I should try a different MPM?

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