At 10:03 PM -0700 7/27/00, Patrick Trongo wrote:
>Questions...
>1)
>New job. No CF at all. They use StoryServer. Creates pages
>dynamically, but at scheduled times,
>not on the fly.. On the fly..it sucks! I'm pushing CF. Anyone have
>experience using CF in an
>environment of several hundred unique templates(fuses) with tens of
>thousands fuseactions? Site
>has 1,800 unique Urls. Each site can be tens of pages deep. They
>have a growing need to be more
>dynamic. I just want to be sure I'm pushing in the right direction.
>I know I can architect the
>site, just want to be sure I don't hit a wall with the software.
>I've never done anything close to
>this scale with it. (If you are having trouble finding CF jobs in
>your town, look into Vignette
>StoryServer jobs... skills cross nicely)
>
Are these, in fact hundreds of unique templates...
I has a similar situation: periodic, dynamic generation of static
pages, for 9 similar sites (from an Access database). Most of these
were drill-down search results.
Anyway the 1,000 original pages were replaced by 30+ templates, they
dynamically generate/populate pages from an SQL Server 7.0 db.
(didn't use fusebox, tho)
I use CF qyery caching & under most situations the dynamic pages
outperformed he static pages.
This is definitely the way to go... some other advantages are:
pages are never out of date awaiting the next generation cycle:
site is never unavailable while the new static pages are being installed
an entire operational process, the generation and installation of static
pages, is entirely eliminated
Having a dynamic process in place promotes much better content, much more
interactive site design, and much cleaner operation... it creates
a different
"mind-set" for everyone involved... you can make a few changes and they are
immediately reflected in the entire system
the whole page/program organization/maintenance issue is orders of magnitude
simpler... you just don't have all these thousands of pieces of crap laying
around... taking up your space/time/attention
NTH
Dick
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