Switch from static to GetSimple with about 200-400 pages

[suntrop]

Hi there.
I've got a website with about 200 pages (another 200 will come the next weeks).

• Does GetSimple can handle up to 500 pages without any drawbacks?
  
• All pages are based on Dreamweaver Templates. I want to do a Search&Replace to replace my header/footer with the corresponding XML code.
  

Please, can you give some thoughts/experiences about this? Would love to hear about it!

Thanks!
suntrop

[JWH_Matthew]

That is a lot of pages...

I personally have never tried this many pages on the CMS.

I think a lot will depend on your server build. Just thinking out loud,
I would say the hardest thing on the server would be generating the
navigation. This is when the server would be required to scan through
all the pages and get the page name and url then close it and move
to the next file. This I would think could pretty easily bob down the server.

[Zegnåt]

Mike (n00dles101) has reported running a website with 2000 pages. GetSimple has no real page limitations, but load times will go up if your server can’t take all the file reading. This could be fixed by developing some kind of caching mechanism to cut back on the file reads per page.

And Matthew is right, the hardest thing is the navigation. Be sure to never call menu_data() or get_navigation() multiple times as they will slowdown your website.

Mike reported a load time of little over 2 seconds without any caching on 2000 pages. 500 pages, if your server is strong enough, should in that case still have loading times under 1 second.

Also, someone (can’t remember who, when or why) on the forum created a script that could import static pages to GetSimple. Search around and you might be able to find it and use it for your switch.

[suntrop]

Navigation, I think, won't be an issue for that site, because about 90% of all pages don't need to be in a dynamic navigation list. It's a list of people and maybe I can handle that static or with an own function.

A strong search function is much more an issue for that site, because a lot of users search instead of look through that list of people.

I 've got a managed server with a pretty good CPU and enough RAM. If there is something like an importer for static pages I believe I'll give it a try.

Thanks for your help!
suntrop

[homershines]

suntrop,

Here's the link for the static page script.

http://get-simple.info/forum/viewtopic.php?id=788

I'm interested in learning, but can't lead this charge.

But, I'm a willing student though.

Peace.

homershines

[mvlcek]

A cached multi-level navigation is included in plugin I18N: http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n/69/

A search which uses a search index automatically created on first access after a content change is now available with I18N Search: http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/i18n/82/

[the_amusing_cow]

suntrop,

Check out the new 'static page' generator plugin that was written by Johannes. It lets you use GS as a CMS, to produce a static site automatically. Static pages will solve any dynamic slowness problems.

T.A.C.

[Carlos]

Let's not forget RobA's SimpleCache plugin:
http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/sim...plugin/56/

Unless you want/need a totally static site (no GetSimple files, only html pages), this is a very easy to use option.

You can set a big expiry time if you have lots of pages.