Thread: Re: Integration Requirements
> > - Moving data; originally we'd looked at exporting from the > cms into > > the filesystem, and having script that did a cvs add/remove/commit > > over the entire tree, into the main web CVS. This is still > preferrable > > from an 'ease of rebuilding' point of view, but might be > easier just > > to rsync the content from the filesystem of the cms machine > to wwwmaster. > > This isn't really practical for a KB or many other > components, which need to be highly dynamic, not a bunch of > static pages. I agree that this isn't very practical - one of the reasons I didn't like it in the first place. It has the one advantage that if this system breaks, it doesn't brek the website. But designing for a system that's expected to break doesn't seem like a very good idea. Then again, "highly dynamic" does *not* necessarily mean you can't use a set of static mirrors to do it. You just need to isolate parts of the system, and put them in the right place. This is something that in my experience most stock CMSes today to a bad job of, whereas custom ones can do a better one. (Heck, it's no big problem to serve a dynamic discussion site that easily survives "the slashdot effect" off a single CPU 233MHz pentium box with non-raid scsi disks. I've done it. You just have to accept redifining "immidiate" as "1 minute". Not many sites require things to be more dynamic htan that.) //Magnus
Magnus, > Then again, "highly dynamic" does *not* necessarily mean you can't use a > set of static mirrors to do it. You just need to isolate parts of the > system, and put them in the right place. This is something that in my > experience most stock CMSes today to a bad job of, whereas custom ones > can do a better one. Actually, it does. You can't do full text search with a static mirror. You can't do bookmarking with a static mirror. You can't do article feedback with a static mirror. Need I go on? I'm talking about a real KB here, not just techdocs. A techdocs replacement does fine as static content. --Josh -- __Aglio Database Solutions_______________ Josh Berkus Consultant josh@agliodbs.com www.agliodbs.com Ph: 415-752-2500 Fax: 415-752-2387 2166 Hayes Suite 200 San Francisco, CA
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Josh Berkus wrote: > Magnus, > >> Then again, "highly dynamic" does *not* necessarily mean you can't use a >> set of static mirrors to do it. You just need to isolate parts of the >> system, and put them in the right place. This is something that in my >> experience most stock CMSes today to a bad job of, whereas custom ones >> can do a better one. > > Actually, it does. You can't do full text search with a static mirror. > You can't do bookmarking with a static mirror. You can't do article > feedback with a static mirror. Need I go on? Of course you can ... you have the 'feedback' link go back to the master server, same with the 'search link' ... we've been doing both on the www.postgresql.org websites for ages now *shrug* The docs are interactive, and we definitely have searching available ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664