For the high-resolution orbital slice viewer on the Visible Orbit website, I had to setup wlziipsrv, a fork of the iipsrv large tiled image server. This is a FastCGI app, which means that, unlike a normal CGI which is started up for each request, one runs a number of these processes in daemon mode, and the front-end webserver communicates with them using the fastcgi protocol. The end-result is this web-based high-resolution image viewer, which you can use to explore several thousands of micro...
