What does it mean when a hosting company offers CGI Based PHP?

Question by Kevin O: What does it mean when a hosting company offers CGI Based PHP?
I am looking to host a website and use various PHP scripts. The hosting site that I am looking at offers "CGI based PHP"? What does that mean for me? Does that mean I cannot embed PHP into my web pages? Do I have to put all PHP scripts into the cgi-bin?


Best answer:
Answer by MostWanted u.N.mWell CGI Based PHP means he must be using PHP as FASTCGI or CGI

you don't need to upload your php scripts /

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