Even with straight HTML, a server's load capacity is not infinite. If my own server, an old Pentium with 4 GB of hard drive space, and which serves nothing but static HTML pages, got hit with more than a couple hundred hits in a short period of time, it would bomb.
I must be misunderstanding your question. I've re-read your original post, and it seems to me that what you're trying to do is save webpage-bound database data in a way which will seriously reduce the load on a webserver; creating static HTML pages from database data instead of building pages dynamically when the user calls them would accomplish that goal, and that is what I was suggesting. val petruchek wrote: >>It seems to me that the major problem with news sites such as cnn.com or >>msnbc.com on dates like 9/11 was the sheer number of visitors coming to >>the site. No matter how the pages were served up, the load was >>unbearable for the servers. >> > > You see, giving user static or dynamic pages differs a lot. > > Just send html or generate it before with php is not the same. > > Valentin Petruchek (aki Zliy Pes) > http://zliypes.com.ua > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- Sliante, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery "Push the button, Max!" -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]