I have noticed lately that alot of people use cgi-bin but i have never used it and i dont even know what its for. But to me it seems to be complicated and messes up alot of scripts.  I have had two issues today with people using cgi-bin and both of them have issues with software. So why use it? What is the purpose of it?

The world would me a much happier place if people would just stick with apache, linux, cpanel and not do all the crazy setups they do. Just keep it standardized.