hi fella monk, actually some of the sites will be updated daily and some are hourly. and yes i'm planning to run cronjobs so that server load will be much lighter. as much as possible i don't want to embbed perl within html files, i have templates separated on a file and the perl script will just replace the original html tags with tags on my template. as much as possible embbeding perl within html files will have a heavy server load especially if you have so many parts of the page updated. thanks again fella monk.