Given that the article’s comparison is between a HTTP server with fastCGI, and writing a little HTTP server, the web server with fastCGI will scale better, cont

Given that the article’s comparison is between a HTTP server with fastCGI, and writing a little HTTP server, the web server with fastCGI will scale better, contrary to what the article suggests. It also would likely be more secure. Reverse proxies are tangential to this.