I'd be less worried about the speed of serving or ram usage as I would how long the X minutes between reloads is. Re-grabbing several MB of data from a database is going to make your site speed crawl while it happens, not to mention you'd need to carefully cflock the application scope writes to ensure your content was coherent - so it'd all be single-threaded as well.
Overall I agree with the people who are suggesting static publishing, since a static HTML page is probably as fast as a cf page coming out of the application scope. As a hybrid solution, or if securing pages is needed, consider publishing the static pages outside the web root and using a CF page and getPageContext().include() - which doesn't have CF parse the include if it's a static type (iirc). Kam -----Original Message----- From: Damien McKenna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 1:58 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Reason to *not* store lots of data in Application scope? I'm working on a rewrite of the events/news schedule for our company's website and was thinking of storing all of the data in the Application scope to be reloaded every X minutes. My question is whether it would be bad from a scaling or resource usage point-of-view to do this? I would probably be storing a few megabytes of data, not a huge amount IMHO. Thanks. -- Damien McKenna - Web Developer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Limu Company - http://www.thelimucompany.com/ <http://www.thelimucompany.com/> - 407-804-1014 #include <stdjoke.h> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196374 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
