When to use the server side?
The apache doc on SSI says, "SSI is a great way to add small pieces of information like the current time. But if most of your page is being generated at the time it is served, you need to look for some other solution." This is good, but somewhat unclear on some issues. For example, does this mean that using SSI for small pieces of information is better than CGI alternatives? Faster, maybe? How is SSI useful if something can be done with CGI? and etc.
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The SSI syntax is very simple and it is built into apache, so it is probably faster than anything that is not an apache module, and WAY is faster and less resource intensive than CGI (process spawn-a-arbitrary-executable-process - for every query that hardly anyone else uses these days).
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