Microsoft announced last week that the final version of FastCGI has been released. FastCGI is an extension to IIS that can vastly improve the performance of CGI based applications like PHP.

Here are a few links that will get you started:

Download the FastCGI for IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003

FastCGI Configuration guide

The great part – FastCGI is an open standard, and is supported by a ton of webservers. More information can be found here:

http://www.fastcgi.com

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