Re: Webcat XML/XSLT Performance vs. static Html
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texte = Adam O'Connor wrote: > Regarding products there are well over 30k, and products is one of > several portions of the site accessed daily by over 12k users, who > probably access these detail pages over and over while using the site. > We have noticed similar sites in this vertical market use a dynamic > technology like webcat to serve static html pages - this is giving them > very fast page loads under heavy traffic loads - obviously because there > is little to process if anything. > > Although we could rewire our detail pages, 'programmatically' speaking, > our goal is to serve these detail pages without having to create db > connections. My idea is to create a small xml file everytime a user adds > a product and/or re-write this xml file anytime a modification has taken > place. Therefore, the xml file would mirror what is in the db. So when > a user clicks to see a product's details from the results page, they > would be served a static page - therefore not needing to access our SQL > sever. The SQL part is something I didn't know about. I don't believe that SQL querries are RAM based.. right? I would think the SQL database has the potential of causing slowness... but I haven't done enough with SQL to know for sure. 30K products is a lot, but I still wonder if there isn't something else that could be done (besides static pages). > In order to keep this manageable as possible, I would like to use one > xsl file to display these xml files, via webcat's xslt function. > Therefore, I would have 30k+ xml files and 1 xsl file. The details page > would have one like of script, a script that grabs the xml file and > merges it with the xsl file. > > > This why I am wondering how resource intense webcat's xml/xsl features. > I know it wouldn't be a big deal on a small/medium scale, but are > situation is larger. Donovan -- =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o DONOVAN D. BROOKE EUCA Design Center <- Web Development (specializing in eCommerce),-> <- Custom Paint, Labels, and Specialty Signage. -> <- Home and Business Embellishment/Fabrication, -> <- Glass Blowing, and Art Glass -> PH/FAX:> 1 (608) 835-2476 Web:> http://www.egg.bz | http://www.euca.us =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Adam O'Connor wrote: > Regarding products there are well over 30k, and products is one of > several portions of the site accessed daily by over 12k users, who > probably access these detail pages over and over while using the site. > We have noticed similar sites in this vertical market use a dynamic > technology like webcat to serve static html pages - this is giving them > very fast page loads under heavy traffic loads - obviously because there > is little to process if anything. > > Although we could rewire our detail pages, 'programmatically' speaking, > our goal is to serve these detail pages without having to create db > connections. My idea is to create a small xml file everytime a user adds > a product and/or re-write this xml file anytime a modification has taken > place. Therefore, the xml file would mirror what is in the db. So when > a user clicks to see a product's details from the results page, they > would be served a static page - therefore not needing to access our SQL > sever. The SQL part is something I didn't know about. I don't believe that SQL querries are RAM based.. right? I would think the SQL database has the potential of causing slowness... but I haven't done enough with SQL to know for sure. 30K products is a lot, but I still wonder if there isn't something else that could be done (besides static pages). > In order to keep this manageable as possible, I would like to use one > xsl file to display these xml files, via webcat's xslt function. > Therefore, I would have 30k+ xml files and 1 xsl file. The details page > would have one like of script, a script that grabs the xml file and > merges it with the xsl file. > > > This why I am wondering how resource intense webcat's xml/xsl features. > I know it wouldn't be a big deal on a small/medium scale, but are > situation is larger. Donovan -- =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o DONOVAN D. BROOKE EUCA Design Center <- Web Development (specializing in eCommerce),-> <- Custom Paint, Labels, and Specialty Signage. -> <- Home and Business Embellishment/Fabrication, -> <- Glass Blowing, and Art Glass -> PH/FAX:> 1 (608) 835-2476 Web:> http://www.egg.bz | http://www.euca.us =o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o=o ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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