My goal was to eliminate as many physical pages as possible so that they
didn't have to be maintained. In our site with over 3000 content objects,
there are less than 30 total physical pages and not a single container.
Everything is driven dynamically by objectid & method or metadata and then
cached.
"Russell Brown"
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No. All though that sounds cool.
The nature of our portal allows us to use Spectra to allow editors to
create pages (with containers and objects in them) and we then use a dead
simple script to get those pages and pass them rendered as html to our live
cluster which serves them as flat html. So its not too good for
personalisation, but as an editorial tool it rocks.
You have a small number of editorial users and 1 flatten script as spectra
load and millions of users hit the result as flat html.
Russell
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Are you creating html files from your spectra objects instead of rendering
on the fly?
"Russell Brown"
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Shaun,
We just serve flat renders of spectra where ever possible and that has
freed us up so much. I think part of the "fun" we have had with spectra has
been finding ways to use it and make it work.
Russell
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With an aggressive caching strategy using cfsupercache rather than cfcache
we've knocked out most of the performance problems.
"Russell Brown"
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Dave,
We still suffer a little from problems of scale and performance but have
over come a lot and expect to overcome more with CFMX, if you have a lot of
investment already it may be worth working around rather than junking ?
Russell
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Sent: 18 June 2002 17:48
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We are replacing Spectra, mostly due to scaling/performance problems
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Briscoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 10:47 AM
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Subject: Keeping Spectra?
Hello all. At my company, we're giving thought to budgets for 2003. As
you may recall, Macromedia's support for Spectra is set to cease at the
end of that year. So I'm having to consider our future plans and just
what to do with Spectra in and beyond 2003.
I see a few immediate options:
1) Keep Spectra - Rely on the community, consultants and my own
resources to continue to build and support applications and hope it is
sustainable
2) Replace Spectra - Invest in another "content management" product
like PaperThin's CommonSpot and hope it remains viable on the long term
3) Recreate Spectra - Dump all these packages and their price tags in
favor of home-grown code
I'm looking to start some discussion on this subject. But if you don't
mind sharing, please share the list what you, your company or your
clients (names not needed) are planning to do in regard to Spectra. Or
just chip in your two cents on the best course of action. Anything will
do.
Thanks!
Tom Briscoe
Web Developer
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