How frequent are the updates? Perhaps you could run a cron job every hour (or whatever is appropriate) which creates a new set of HTML files. That way, your visitors only ever see static HTML files which will make the site faster for them.

Another option might be for the process which changes the information that you are displaying to regenerate the HTML files once it has finished the update.

I'd recommend looking at the Template Toolkit to handle the template expansion.

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In reply to Re: Automatic updates on sites. by davorg
in thread Automatic updates on sites. by damian

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