On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 03:16 , Aunger, Mitch wrote: > Now, I've proposed doing the Press Releases in a similar way - all content > and much of the formatting being stored in an oracle database. However, my > web 'gurus' are saying that we can't possibly put dynamic content on the > external site because each page could have 50,000+ hits a day and that > would > overload our servers. I'm guessing that their 'fear' is based on a bad > past > history with ColdFusion. (Gee.. I hope none of them are on this list and > are > easily offended <g>)
Well, your "web gurus" are talking nonsense. A well-designed dynamic web site can easily manage 50,000 hits a day. That isn't even high-traffic, in my opinion. My team is in the process of rewriting macromedia.com as a completely dynamic system - we get about 6m page views per day right now. Also, Matt Liotta will no doubt want to mention the incredibly high speed with which his system delivers (dynamic) pages. The key is that the system wouldn't actually go to the database for every single page view. Caching is king. Cache your queries, cache your pages, cache, cache, cache. Sean A Corfield -- http://www.corfield.org/blog/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
