=head1 FastCGI Deployment
-FastCGI is a high-performance extension to CGI. It is suitable
-for production environments, and is the standard method for deploying Catalyst
-in shared hosting environments.
+FastCGI is a high-performance extension to CGI. It is suitable for production
+environments, and is the standard method for deploying Catalyst in shared
+hosting environments.
=head2 Pros
=head3 Load-balancing
-You can launch your application on multiple backend servers and allow the
-frontend web server to load-balance between all of them. And of course, if
-one goes down, your app continues to run fine.
+You can launch your application on multiple backend servers and allow
+the frontend web server to perform load-balancing among all of them. And
+of course, if one goes down, your app continues to run.
=head3 Multiple versions of the same app
Since your app is not running inside of Apache, the faster mpm_worker module
can be used without worrying about the thread safety of your application.
+=head3 Widely supported.
+
+FastCGI is compatible with many server implementations, not just Apache.
+
=head2 Cons
You may have to disable mod_deflate. If you experience page hangs with
With FastCGI, there are more things to monitor and more processes running
than when using mod_perl.
-XXX - FIXME, note not just apache!
-
=head2 Standalone FastCGI Server
In server mode the application runs as a standalone server and accepts
=head1 WEB SERVERS
-Any web server which supports FastCGI should work with Catalyst. Configuration recipies for
-well-known web servers are linked below, and we would welcome contributions from people
-deploying Catalyst against other web servers.
+Any web server which supports FastCGI should work with Catalyst. Configuration
+recipies for well-known web servers are linked below, and we would welcome
+contributions from people deploying Catalyst on other web servers.
=head2 Apache