Come on CC, the cgi-bin cache is right there next to the perl overclocker limiter



Maybe they have their caching for their servers setup to also cache cgi files... There is a MS "Internet Security and Acceleration Server" used by some providors and one of the functions is a cache server. The "MS Standards" could also be their recommendations for the time-out settings.

Funny, one would think that caching output of a script would make it faster, not time out.

The host providers are....


wait for it.. FASTHOSTS

The servers are Windows 2000 ones - does this make any difference?

mebbe... we run on win2k at UBBDev and have scripts time out at the default 30 seconds, but then again only have a few sites on the server, plus I know what's installed on each so I'm not afraid of one taking them all down. As a web host you have no idea what sites might have inferior forum scripts installed

If they are running that internet accelerator server, it could very well be at a default of 10 seconds.