CGI is easy, yeah, but it has a lot of the same disadvantages as mod_php: no routing, no shared state, slow execution, server misconfiguration can expose your c

CGI is easy, yeah, but it has a lot of the same disadvantages as mod_php: no routing, no shared state, slow execution, server misconfiguration can expose your code, possible code execution if you accept uploads, etc. There are approaches that'll let you dump a WSGI app (with a known interface) anywhere and have the web server still run it. Gosh, someone ought to write about those.