That's way Drupal has several layers of caching, the biggest advantage of a database is that's easy to move your site or for heavy visited sites you can use several front-end web servers to serve page. Amongst many other benefits of using a database (multi-user, stable, easy to backup, ...) Regarding the speed, a good database running on a decent server is as fast as file I/O From: development-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Ankur Jain Sent: vrijdag 31 juli 2009 10:26 To: development@drupal.org Subject: Re: [development] Query about new page i just wanted to know why drupal is saving all the page content in database .. if we have many pages then it may slow down the database and also page loading. On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Peter Droogmans <Peter@attiks.com<mailto:Peter@attiks.com>> wrote: What you want to do is possible, have a look at hook_menu, this defines the path for your page, but I don't really understand what's your objection to saving your data in the database. What is it you want to achieve? Best regards, Peter Droogmans Attiks Ketsstraat 94 2140 Borgerhout Belgium 32 3 288 61 17 32 497 44 44 77 From: development-bounces@drupal.org<mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org> [mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org<mailto:development-bounces@drupal.org>] On Behalf Of Ankur Jain Sent: vrijdag 31 juli 2009 07:49 To: development@drupal.org<mailto:development@drupal.org> Subject: [development] Query about new page Hi , I am new to drupal and i want to create new page like abc.php but i don't want to create this page from admin section create content -> page / story ... bco'z it save the page into database ... i want to create new php page by my own and then let say call this from one of the menu item ( on click of the menu ) .. how can i do that ... and also wanted to know why drupal is saving all the page in database ... is for some optimization or achieve some functionality. ankur