Before the flight: Native Output Cache, PHP and FastCGI, and other stuff

I am sitting on a stack of juicy topics I’ve been meaning to post about, but I ran out of time taking care of last minute business before leaving the office for the long-awaited Thanksgiving vacation. So, in the meantime, here are some interesting stuff to check out: IIS7’s Native Output Cache – Kanwal, our … [Read more…]

Try out the IIS FastCGI techical preview

As you know, we released the FastCGI technical preview this week, aimed at providing a fast and stable platform for running FastCGI applications like PHP.  Its been very popular, with more downloads then we have expected for the first week. I wanted to say thank you to everyone trying this out.  By trying it out, … [Read more…]

The PHP / FastCGI Technical Preview is Live!

After several weeks of silence on this topic, and lots of hard work, we just released the FastCGI Techical Preview for IIS 5.x / IIS 6 / IIS7! This preview provides a new FastCGI component for IIS aimed at hosting PHP applications with much improved performance over the CGI mode and stability unlike the ISAPI … [Read more…]

Making PHP rock on Windows/IIS

********************UPDATE – 10/30/2006: We have just released the FastCGI Technical Preview for IIS 5.x / IIS 6 / IIS 7.  Read more on my blog post,  and go get it from iis.net.  More blog coverage also on Bill’s blog. ********************UPDATE – 12/31/2006: We have just released the FastCGI Technical Preview 2 for IIS 5.x / IIS 6 / … [Read more…]