+1, FastCGI is the way to go for web services in C/C++: not only because cause of avoiding to spawn a process for each request, but because of having web servic

+1, FastCGI is the way to go for web services in C/C++: not only because cause of avoiding to spawn a process for each request, but because of having web services state in memory. Also, for avoiding heap fragmentation in long lived processes I recommend avoiding the STL library, and avoid using C++ strings, too.