From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 19 12:52:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21144 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20876 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:52:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00505; Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:51:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 12:51:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Randy Katz cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dynamic or Static Query??? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Randy Katz wrote: > I have a general question about a Web Site. Should the pages be generated > dynamically or statically? Absolutely statically. If your hit rate goes ballistic the instances of perl or sh will drag the system down way before you hit the static file limit. If the script breaks, the whole thing dies ;( > PS - I understand that http://my.yahoo.com/? uses cookies and it must > pull from a database to generate the pages...the front end one at > least. There are exceptions, I guess. Use the anxiom ``Make the common case fast'' and you should be OK. Or else be ready to invest in a big server farm.... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message