From: trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2009-03-08T12:25:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Static web site generators



On Mar 7, 7:26 pm, Peter Booth <pbo...@nocoincidences.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit of an obsessive about website performance. I recently  
> ditched a domain registrar because the admin tools all had five to ten  
> second delays on each page.
>
> Static generators can stop us having to waste chunks of our life  
> waiting on piss-poor dynamic web apps. Many dynamic sites really could  
> be static. Most dynamic sites are untuned (thus slow). What would you  
> think of a store that always had a ten minute checkout line? This is  
> really no different. If you deploy a slow website you are saying to  
> your users "your time isn't important to me"
>
> So the thought of choosing a dynamic site over static seems bizarre to  
> me.

I have never had a page I've created take more then a fraction of a
second to generate. I'd ditch a host that made me wait five to ten
seconds too.

T.