Ssi? Php? Asp?

[gertiebeth]

I am wondering if going from SSI's to either ASP or PHP on my server will help with my CPU-hogging sites on my Raq4i. My sites are huge and changing page extensions would be a huge undertaking, but I'll do it if you all think it would be worth it. Also, which would be better in the longrun, CPU lite wise. ASP or PHP?

Also, the RAM on my Raq is 512 and I'm still getting "The CPU is heavily loaded" messages. (I have several CGI banner scripts going.) It would save me about $50 a month to drop the RAM to 216. Do I dare? Could the scripts possibly crash my server with the RAM so low?

[lucifer]

if you are low on RAM then the server will start paging memory onto its HD - this will make it suddenly drop in speed to that of a disabled snail. RAM is the life blood of your server. PHP and ASP will use more processor power than SSI as they do more.

look at your CGI scripts and see if you can make them less intensive - or ship cpu heavy things somewhere else