Use the filesystem and store each pdf on the file system you can use a cron to delete the files older than x Is each PDF substantially different or just some pertinent details like customer name, address etc? Could you template that so that you are generating a minimal number of PDFs? How often does a customer come in and request a new PDF? On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 1:09 PM, George Wilson <rmwscbt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greetings all, > I hope this is not tip toeing off topic but I am working on solving a > problem at work right now and was hoping someone here might have some > experience/insight. > > My company has a new proprietary server which generates pdf chemical safety > files via a rest API and returns them to the user. My project manager wants > a layer of separation between the website(and hence user) and the document > server so I wrote an intermediary script which accepts a request from the > website and attempts to grab a pdf from the document server via the php > curl system. That appears to be working well. > > Here is the issue I am trying to solve: > > We must assume a total of 1.4 million possible documents which may be > generated by this system- each initiated directly from our website. Each > document is estimated to be about a megabyte in size. Generating each one > takes at least a few seconds. > > We are interested in setting up some kind of document caching system > (either a home brewed php based system or a system that generates the > files, saves them and periodically deletes them). My project manager is > concerned about web crawlers kicking off the generation of these files and > so we are considering strategies to avoid blowing out our server resources. > > Does anyone have any suggestions or have you dealt with this problem > before? > > Thank you in advance > -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat
