Re: High Traffic Sites and PHP/dynamic page generation

Can't say for sure because Ive never been in a situation that gets as many hits as yahoo.com, maybe I should post this on slashdot, haha. I would take a good guesss and say dynamic pages will create more cpu load, any time your asking the server to create a page on the fly, vs pulling a static page up, sure its going to take longer. You could use php to generate static pages, sure. I had a page wich updatated the stats on the amount , type, and price of equipment and aprts I had in the database, its was processor and sql intensive, it took 45sec to generate the page. To speed things up I had cron create a static page of the results once an hour. now the stats page takes less then a second to load, but the content is not updated realtime.... Chris Lee Mediawaveonline.com In article <001201c041d2$316c4290$747d4881@resnet.uwyo.edu>, "Jan-Eric Duden" <jeduden@whisset.com> wrote: > ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C04197.8269E8E0 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi ! > > I wonder if high traffic site such as yahoo do dynamically generate = > their pages or use static pages ? Has anybody more information about > that? How do you decide if you go to static pages or just improve your > server = processing performance? > > Thanks in advance > > Eric > > ------=_NextPart_000_000F_01C04197.8269E8E0-- >