Just to cover all bases: you realize that unless you run the member-only part of the site under SSL you have no security at all? In HTTP passwords are passed in quasi-cleartext (when the user enters it the first time), so any measure you take only gives you the illusion of security.

As for load times, it really depends on the load on your server, but I am not sure you have to worry yet. I found this mod_perl talk quite interesting, and they quote is 40/50 hits per second as a ballpark figure for when to move to mod_perl. You should be really happy if you get that kind of traffic (and your community should be worried about the cost of bandwith at that point)!

In reply to Re: Security in CGI and User Authentication by mirod
in thread Security in CGI and User Authentication by Tanalis

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