On 9-Jan-06, at 4:22 PM, Moshe Weitzman wrote:
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/sandbox/jeremy/ filecache/?hideattic=0 would be great if you reimplemented this in modern drupal and submitted for core review.
Like many enhancements to Drupal, having them would be great. However, I would really like to know if this is seen as a general need in this community or not. I know it could go a long ways to reducing server loads, but would people use it? More importantly, would there be enough people interested in this to develop a reverse bounty to see that it gets implemented properly? I'm not sure at this point that I've got the client base to fund all of this development internally. We're building some requirements now, so will have a better sense of it fairly soon. Pages like this are very useful: http://drupal.org/node/2601 But it still isn't going to give you the snappy response that you'd get from a drupal page that has been cached as a static html page. A program like jpcache (http://www.jpcache.com/), would be a bit slower than a static page because apache would have to load php, and then load the cached file (from a file or db), however it would still use a fraction of the resources that a drupal site would. The only reference to jpcache in drupal.org is: http://drupal.org/node/12169 There are a lot of issues to be considered with static page caching and I'm not sure how (or if) it is possible to accommodate multi-site installs. Having a few folks contributing ideas, concerns, limitations would be great. Mike
Mike Gifford wrote:
Hi folks, We've worked with jpcache in the past to produce static page caching for dynamic sites. We'd like to see the ability to create and edit pages with drupal that get saved as good old fashioned html files. Perhaps this would happen on a daily basis, perhaps only under severe load, perhaps only for paths with a .html extension, however not all drupal content needs to be loaded from drupal all of the time. Throttle is nice. The page caching is a good step in the right direction too.. But I'd like to cache an entire page so that php isn't even loaded at all to deliver the page. So, I'd just like to know what attempts have been done to do this in the past (if any), and what problems they had (so that hopefully we don't repeat the same ones). We've investigated this for other CMS's, but not for Drupal. -- Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting Free Software for Social Change -> http://openconcept.ca NGOs & Drupal -> http://del.icio.us/tag/drupal+ngo Latest NGO Launch -> Foundation for Iranian Studies - http://fis- iran.org/