[thelist] Looking for a simple CF-based catalog/shopping cart

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Mon Dec 10 22:40:55 CST 2001


aaron,

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> From: Aaron Johnson
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> DOes that means that sites built using custom tags are
> inherently slow?  Not at all...
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i would say that "not at all" requires a disclaimer.  that disclaimer would
be something along the lines of "provided the machine your site is on isn't
already taxed or used by others who aren't performance-minded".

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> Should you be concerned about using custom tags on sites
> w/ massive (ebay like) amounts of traffic?  Yeah, but
> you're probably not using CF for a site w/ massive
> amounts of traffic anyway...
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no, but you might be on a server that, with all the sites on it combined, is
receiving excessive amounts of traffic in addition to being impaired with
lots of poorly written code.

so, in my opinion, custom tags and other performance sapping conventions
aren't a concern if your site is either by itself on a machine you maintain
with your stealth-like sys-admin ninja skills or with very few other sites
and a) those sites don't receive very much traffic, b) these sites are coded
with performance in mind, and c) you don't care about how you impact their
performance (along with yours).  however, in the world of virtual hosting,
you better be concerned.  Otherwise you're just contributing to the
ill-health of the server and doing your part to make sure it doesn't have
any stability.  since most of us can't afford to have our own server for a
site and are stuck with virtual hosting, it behooves us to make note of any
and all performance gains there are and try to use as many as are
conceivable.  by conceivable, i mean things that don't drastically reduce
readability and maintainability of the code, don't require more time than
they're worth to implement, don't affect the server in other negative ways,
etc.

again, just my opinion,

.jeff

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