[thelist] ASP question

[Madhu Menon]

At 05:50 AM 8/24/00, you wrote:
>Are the stories static? What about pre-processing them (i.e. once a night)
>and generating all those pages? --You get them indexed, and there's no extra
>ASP overhead in serving them up ....

Yeah, the stories are mostly static. And the way I do it now is to do 
exactly what you've described - combining the story in the database with 
the template and batch processing them. The problem is when you have a 
large number of pages and you want to tweak a template a little for either 
design changes or to accommodate special advertising requirements. Then 
generating 500 pages in a section all over again is the pain I'd like to 
avoid.

BTW, a product called XCache promises to significantly reduce the time it 
takes to dynamically serve up pages. Have you used it or heard good/bad 
things about it?

Thanks,

Madhu

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