Serving 200 million requests per day with a cgi-bin (via) Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to serve 2400+ requests per second or 200M+ requests per day. I got my start in web development with CGI back in the late 1990s - I was a huge fan of NewsPro, which was effectively a weblog system before anyone knew what a weblog was. CGI works by starting, executing and terminatin...