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I'm designing an information-heavy web site (static content, no user content), and have been wondering the best way to do it. Look into Movable Type (http://m
by byoung2 17y ago
I'm designing an information-heavy web site (static content, no user content), and have been wondering the best way to do it.
Look into Movable Type (http://movabletype.com/ http://movabletype.com/). It is written in Perl and it writes static html files.
I did the redesign of http://www.steves-digicams.com/ http://www.steves-digicams.com/ in Movable Type 4.23 and there are over 12,000 pages. Movable Type generates the static files at publish time in about as much time as Wordpress takes.
A big advantage of using static files on Steve's Digicams is that it is very easy to replicate across a load-balanced network of servers without the hassle of having to load-balance MySQL with a master-slave configuration.
- prewett 17y agoThanks for pointing me to MT. I looked at it a bit, and it seems promising. It looks like it stores everything in a database, and generates the static files from that. How do you deal with a major site update? Would you copy the database to the dev machine, do the update, and then have some SQL magic to merge in only the parts that have changed? (Since you can't copy it back, as then you'd lose all the forum posts since the copy-to-dev)