Thank for the info! I'll have to look into the "last-modified" and "if-modified" issues.
Rick -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:19 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Parsing .css files with CF > Would the benefits to the network of running > an MSOC site over a network that utilizes dynamic stylesheets > where much more content is accessed from the > same point-of-origin (assuming this causes more > caching of images, etc.) outweigh the benefits of > running multiple sites that have much of the same > content (images, especially) from one-site, one-codebase > setups? > > In other words, do MSOC sites use much less bandwidth > typically than OSOC sites? I don't think you can really come to a definite conclusion here - you can build bandwidth-inefficient MSOC sites, or bandwidth-efficient OSOC sites. (Hint: are you properly using the Last-Modified HTTP response header in your scripts? are you properly responding to If-Modified-Since HTTP request headers?) There's no reason you can't have an MSOC environment that generates cached, site-specific (maybe "site-specific" isn't the right phrase here, let's say "specific to one of your clients") content. There's no reason that you need to generate CSS at runtime, unless you have inputs at runtime that would affect the output. Usually, you already have the inputs well in advance of runtime. Of course, this is largely true for a lot of site content - not just CSS. The more of that you can cache, the better your application will perform, but the more infrastructure you need to manage changes. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ http://training.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:343738 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
