At 5:36 AM -0700 7/28/00, Patrick Trongo wrote:
> > 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
>
> - Thats my argument for CF... although the StoryServer mindset is very much
>Dynamic page
>generation...but only when absolutly needed. I was at cfug that Ben Forta Spoke at
>recently.. this
>was basically his message at the meeting. Don't continue to stress the CF boxes just
>because you
>can.
I thought about this as I was implementing the the system for my client... but took
the easy way out... assuming the old General Motors/Microsoft adage... there's no
substitute for cubic inches/MHZ.
It really is easier to just throw processing power at the problem!
>There are much better processes the servers can be handling than recreating a
>virtually
>static page dynaically. As to the cascading effect of code changes... StoryServer can
>do that, but
>you must manually clear the Cached pages that are affected, but the end result is the
>same... if
>you change the graphic in the footer template and dump the cach, all of the pages now
>will be
>regen in sequence, or when requested with the new image. I am actually working on a
>CF based
>equivelent to StoryServer. I like the Caching Scheme, it makes sense. CF Scheme
>doesn't have the
>404 handler benefit that SS has... don't know exactly how to handle that... your
>issues are all
>valid in the CF environ.
Now, this is of interest... could be the best of both worlds... you could implement a
solution which allows you to dynamically "change the dials" to range from no-dynamic
to full-dynamic.
...Even gather stats so the system could tune itself.
Keep us posted on your progress.
Dick
>
>
>
>
>Thanks!
>
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>Patrick Trongo
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