On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 13:15, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > So unless you *need* minute-by-minute dynamic generation of > your site, you win by using a build-time process to produce pages > which are then served statically.
I think you could make an actual formula for calculating this. Basically, static generation is a win until the amount of time it takes to generate the whole site becomes larger than the amount of time in which the data changes. Then you have to look for alternatives. We had this situation at eToys, when it started taking hours to generate the hundreds of thousands of pages on the site and we needed them to update within an hour or so. We were already pushing our luck by using SSI (thorugh mod_perl of course) in the generated pages for up-to-the-minute stock level data, so finally we changed our approach to generating pages on demand and then caching them. This worked great for us, since only a small percentage of our pages were actually viewed in any given hour. So, the other factor is knowing what percentage of pages get viewed. - Perrin _______________________________________________ templates mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.template-toolkit.org/mailman/listinfo/templates
