On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 11:25 -0500, Robert Cummings wrote: > Joseph Thayne wrote: > > If the site can be a few minutes behind, (say 15-30 minutes), then what > > I recommend is to create a caching script that will update the necessary > > files if the md5 checksum has changed at all (or a specified time period > > has past). Then store those files locally, and run local copies of the > > files. Your performance will be much better than if you have to request > > the page from another server every time. You could run this script > > every 15-30 minutes depending on your needs via a cron job. > > Use URL rewriting or capture 404 errors to handle the proxy request. No > need to download and cache the entire site if everyone is just > requesting the homepage. > > Cheers, > Rob. > -- > http://www.interjinn.com > Application and Templating Framework for PHP > Yeah, I was going to use the page request to trigger the caching mechanism, as it's unlikely that all pages are going to be equally as popular as one another. I'll let you all know how it goes on! Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
