Comments on: Static HTML Will Do http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/ Technology and Geek Stuff by Eric Burke Thu, 04 Nov 2010 22:37:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dennis S http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2106 Dennis S Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:10:50 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/#comment-2106 Not like I'm going to point you to the site, but I used Userland's Radio software (http://radio.userland.com/) and a special 'static' generating plug-in to maintain a site of mine for a long time. A lot of template tweaking on my part but it worked. That's always the bottom line, does it work for you. Right now I'm looking at Joomla to set up a site for a relative. Ouch, can you say PHP headaches... As Always... Not like I’m going to point you to the site, but I used Userland’s Radio software (http://radio.userland.com/) and a special ’static’ generating plug-in to maintain a site of mine for a long time. A lot of template tweaking on my part but it worked. That’s always the bottom line, does it work for you. Right now I’m looking at Joomla to set up a site for a relative. Ouch, can you say PHP headaches…

As Always…

]]> By: CodeToJoy http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2104 CodeToJoy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:38:10 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/#comment-2104 I once read a blog post/article that talked about going "baked" and not "fried". By "baked" they meant static HTML generated offline. Among the advantages was that it was crazy fast. A cool analogy, IMO. Ted Neward has mentioned in talks that Amazon takes a hybrid approach. Part of their site is baked (and naturally much more is fried with every technology imaginable). The number of server calls needed to render the home page is unbelievable. I once read a blog post/article that talked about going “baked” and not “fried”.

By “baked” they meant static HTML generated offline. Among the advantages was that it was crazy fast. A cool analogy, IMO.

Ted Neward has mentioned in talks that Amazon takes a hybrid approach. Part of their site is baked (and naturally much more is fried with every technology imaginable). The number of server calls needed to render the home page is unbelievable.

]]> By: danb http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/comment-page-1/#comment-2085 danb Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:00:35 +0000 http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/27/static-html-will-do/#comment-2085 My site (ronpaulgraphs.com) has handled over half a million page views in a single day. It uses a pile of java technologies and mysql... but it uses them to generate a pile of "static" html and pngs... then serves all that up with plain old apache... using javascript and cookies.. and maybe eventually some light weight "web services"... I can offer up content that changes every 5 minutes and is fairly interactive... but I can handle many thousands of users in a day with the low end dedicated server from godaddy. This is the first time I've used this type of architecture, and it was mostly by accident.. but I've been extremely happy and there are a number of other benefits I haven't even gone into. I'll certainly have it in my tool bag in the future My site (ronpaulgraphs.com) has handled over half a million page views in a single day. It uses a pile of java technologies and mysql… but it uses them to generate a pile of “static” html and pngs… then serves all that up with plain old apache… using javascript and cookies.. and maybe eventually some light weight “web services”… I can offer up content that changes every 5 minutes and is fairly interactive… but I can handle many thousands of users in a day with the low end dedicated server from godaddy.

This is the first time I’ve used this type of architecture, and it was mostly by accident.. but I’ve been extremely happy and there are a number of other benefits I haven’t even gone into. I’ll certainly have it in my tool bag in the future

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