On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 12:33:21PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote: > > > Also, we were contemplating switching to dynamic pages. > > > > I don't know if this is a good idea performance wise. > > There is no question that static pages are more efficient. The question is > whether we can provide dynamic pages with the resources we have. Frankly, > I don't have a lot of experience with dynamic pages, but I suspect it > shouldn't be a problem. Note that we are only contemplating the use. No > decision has been made.
AFAICT master.d.o in its current state wouldn't be able to handle another "nice" CGI, or a PHP script accessing a PostgreSQL database, or anything like that. Admittedly future conversion of BTS to a real database will probably stop the abusive bots from DoSing machine every now and then, but there are still X annoyingly resource-expensive scripts that run on master almost all the time. We could have cool dynamic stuff using only CGIs if we had a non-US server carrying both archives, I think some Perl code could find out appropriate versions for each architecture. But we don't have such a server. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification