Alright I have the other post about fastCGI, but I was wondering about this approach as it seems a whole lot easier. So if I run php as a apache module with open_basedir enabled on each account on my server then changed everyone's files nobody nobody which I assume allows php to access them. Also, all directories and files are 755 and 644 respectively and I haven't had any issues with php or my Joomla CMS not being able to write to a directory or file since the chown and chgrp to nobody command was done. Is this dangerous? What else should I look at securing? CGI was incredibly slow (also breaks eaccelerator) and was overloading my server last night because I regularly spike over 150 users at any given moment and that ='s bad on a uncached dynamic page. I cant seem to figure out fastCGI either so that's not an option right now. Thanks