Thanks for the response. Understood that the scenario you gave was just an example. Wanted to be sure that you were not implying something I should be aware of. I DONT want to use CGI. I DONT want to use IIS. Im stuck using IIS 6. Checked out ActiveState. They had a module called PerlEx that is not supported anymore. Im trying to find out if there PerlIS.dll is the recommended solution to use. Supposedly PerlEx was 2 to 48 time faster then PerlIS ( by activstates docs ) I understand also that differenct apps have different needs. Just for grins what would use if NOT CGI? Is FastCGI REALLY a better solution?