The big difference there is that mod_php is able to restart the PHP interpreter for each request. (You can do something similar with mod_perl, as I've pointed in the past, but no ISP is going to bother.) And from a security perspective, mod_php runs as the web server user, just like mod_perl does.

Frankly, I'm not sure why people are still talking about this, when so many cheap ISPs support FastCGI. You can run PHP or Perl on FastCGI without any security concerns beyond those of CGI. If you run a dedicated server, you can use mod_php or mod_perl for more features. Seems like a done deal to me.

In reply to Re^4: PHP over perl by perrin
in thread PHP over perl by targetsmart

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