On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Octavian Rasnita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, I've seen that many Catalyst developers prefer to use fastcgi and > not mod_perl, because when using fastcgi, the applications can be restarted > without restarting the whole web server.
It's the same with mod_perl: you can restart your backend server without touching the frontend proxy server. It's possible that some FastCGI implementations have a truly seamless way to do this though, holding requests while the backend restarts. I haven't played with it enough to know. - Perrin
