[GEEKY] Check out WebGen
Sites that have to support a huge amount of traffic tend to want to be static html. No matter how fast PHP or perl is, in the end, static pages win. So tools pop up to allow you to generate a templated site, but generate it into static html to kind of have your cake and eat it too.
Webgen is one of those static web site generators. Here’s what it does:
“When webgen is run it combines the template with each of the page files and generates the HTML output files. During this process special tags are substituted so that, for example, a menu is generated. Actually, this website was generated with webgen and, for example, the menu that you can see was created dynamically. For more information look at the documentation!” (from Webgen)
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January 31st, 2008 at 11:08 am
Thanks, this looks interesting. I just did an update to our website and found that it was a disastrous mess of ASP (which seems basically to be Microsoft PHP). Not only was it really awful, but there’s absolutely no way to preview changes without uploading to the site, because no browser can render ASP.
Then I discovered that Microsoft IIS (not my choice, again) has a “feature” called “kernel mode caching”. What this apparently means is that when you update any content, the web server doesn’t notice until you restart it. Scarier still, if you delete a file, the server notices and gives a 404 — but if you replace the file with something else, it serves the old content.
I honestly don’t understand why people use these technologies. Yes, there’s the inertia of the monopoly and using what comes pre-installed, but as far as I can tell IIS just doesn’t work!