HOWTO: Speeding up Spyce/CGI

Hi,

I'm using hostmonster.com, a low-end web host.

I'm just starting out on Spyce, and have been tangling with the
challenge of how to get better performance than plain old CGI.

My host has mod_proxy[_http] disabled (and the admins won't enable it),
and does not allow me to spawn a persistent background process via ssh.

It does, however, have cron, with a policy of killing off jobs only when
they exceed 30s of CPU time.

So I've come up with a solution which involves:
 - a shell script cron job, running once a minute, which detects if
   my Spyce server is running and, if not, runs it
 - a small C program 'cgiproxy.c', which bridges from pure CGI into
   an HTTP client request to the Spyce server

This combination allows me to have a Spyce server running with nearly
100% uptime, and access it via pure CGI with no need for Apache mod_proxy.

My question is - is there here in a similar boat who would like me to
write all this up in a formal HOWTO document, including my cron script
and CGI adapter?

-- 
Kind regards
David


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