More and more companies are experiencing a need to effectively manage
ever-changing content on high-traffic Web sites. These high-traffic sites
receive as many as 1 million hits per day and require significant amounts of
technical and financial support. The question of how to create a
cost-effective, efficient system to support these sites has fueled a debate
among IT professionals over the value of delivering them dynamically versus
statically.
Dynamic sites - sites that pull and assemble content stored in a repository -
are easy to customize and capable of providing rapidly changing content.
These sites provide the richest feature set for contributors and are easier
and cheaper to build and manage. However, a high-traffic dynamic site
requires hefty investments in software and hardware to support the high
consumption requirements. And, as the site grows, so do th... (more)