Sunday 06 April 2008 4:04:04 pm
"quite old topic... not much interest anymore... I removed the sticky..." On the contrary, I would suggest there is a lot interest in what you call "Static Cache" (other descriptions are "Static content export", "Static Deployment" etc). Plone has had this functionality, allbeit as a free plug-in, for years. The up-and-coming (very cool) Silverstripe CMS (www.silverstripe.com) already has this basic built-in and the developers are actively working on improving it for "Enterprise" class interface and functionality. "I think people should start using reverse proxies over static cache." For some organisations such as ours, the overhead in managing, configuring and maintaining a reverse-proxy was such that it was no-hassle at all in comparison to simply employ a system that generated flat HTML from dynamic content. We have no use for public logins, calendar or forum functionality, just data that is occasionally requested in massive numbers - in very, very short timespan. I am actively looking at ezPublish for a replacement for our current CMS, and its ability to create a static "cached" representation of files and file hierarchy is an absolute key component to our using it or not. Thanks to the other posters to this thread, very useful information. :-)
Russell Michell, Wellington, New Zealand.
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