[microtonal]

Well, for some folks it works fine on the internet as well:

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]...

tl;dr: sqlite.org and fossil-scm.org run using a simple HTTP server via inetd and some parts of the website are CGI scripts. In 2010 they served over a quarter million requests per day on a tiny VPS with only 3% CPU load.

[mikeash]

I run my entire web site on CGI scripts invoked by Apache. I really don't get the hate for it. It's extremely convenient and works great.

[ajbetteridge]

Same here. And to get the flame bait machine started, we even do it in Perl!

[girvo]

So I've been curious about this; Nimrod has some SCGI libraries and the like built in, but I didn't know whether that would be good enough for real world usage without building a concurrent application server into my App itself. How does it handle multiple requests at once without impacting performance badly? I know that's a noob question, I struggled to find good information on SCGI/CGI for today's use cases, so I sort of wrote it off as too hard basket...

[weland]

Shhh! You're on Hackernews man...