Easy CGI today announced an improvement in the speed of their Hosting Control Panel. The Easy CGI Hosting Control Panel is the primary customer interface for Easy CGI's 20,000 shared hosting customers, providing administrative tools for virtually every aspect of all customer accounts. A fast and easy-to-use Control Panel is a vital component of any quality hosting provider's support services.

This dramatic speed improvement was made possible by ActiveState's PerlEx pre-compiler. Rather than requiring the Easy CGI Control Panel code to compile on each execution or page load, a pre-compiled image of the Control Panel is loaded into memory. Using PerlEx, user executions are not subject to compilation time, and are much faster due to this "in memory" runtime execution. The end result is an improvement in page load time of about 500%, helping enhance the overall customer experience.

"Our Hosting Control Panel has always been one of the highlights of our shared hosting product line," said Dan Richfield, Easy CGI's CEO. "We have always maintained complete control of the interface, allowing us to improve functionality in-house without relying on third party vendors. By increasing the speed of the Easy CGI Control Panel so substantially, we have raised the bar on the quality of service we provide to our customers."