distributed mailing list? (Was Re: [SunRescue] Question...)

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:

> I'd always assumed that those all php/mysql all the time sites were at
> least doing some simple template operations.  That has been one the fields
> that I've been someone peeved about for some time.  What if I have a
> fairly large site that needs done pretty quickly, but most of the pages
> are similar, and server side scripting isn't an option.

Have your PHP site as:

  generated.offthescalewebhits.com

then add to a cron job:

  wget -x -r http://generated.offthescalewebhits.com/ ./

and then mount this as:

  www.offthescalewebhits.com

-*-

> Now, BeOS could be real interesting to use here, but it craps out after a
> few thousand files in a directory.  It's indexing system has flaws.

RDBMS scale.

Paul

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