[thelist] Front page idea..

> This creates a static
> version of our dynamic page and saves DB connections(and CPU cycles)
> untill someone actually clicks a link to an article.(I mean, whats the
> point of doing 15 DB calls every time someone loads the frontpage for
> people that just scan the frontpage for new topics). Also, because its
> an .html page, it will render *MUCH* faster than a dynamic CF page. This
> is the *KEY*. We could get 100K hits a day on our front page with the
> current setup, and apache wouldn't break a sweat. Saving CF for the
> other X% of page views that actually request a dynamic page is A Good
> Thing.(tm)

This is pretty much what slashdot does for their frontpage, except the
just have a perl script running the the BG to update every minute or
so.  They do this for a lot of their articles too.  About the only thing
done dynamically anymore is showing comments for an article.  I know
doesn't quite get as much traffic as slashdot does[:)], but you might
want to take a peek at their sourcecode: http://www.slashcode.com.  Just
a thought......... 

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Jeremy Ashcraft
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