Dear Fellow Monks,

This is a little off topic and it is mainly directed to running a site like this and not to perl in general. I ask for some mercy in breeching protocol as well as your opnions on the matter.

I am looking to write a content management system similar to this with forums but aiming much more towards limited content generation and large amounts of archiving of data. ( Think online library ) Amd while I look for some of the possibilities online to fit my needs it really seems to me that a custom app is needed to merge with my existing programs and some of the other stuff coming online this month. But I digress.

When you enter this site a perl script is called that generates the main page and retrieves the content and login information on the user if it is stored. I think this is wonderful and want to do this as well but now here comes the questions.

  • What sort of server power does the Perl Monks site run on?
  • I was told google does not search dynamic pages such as CGI's if this is true how do i get my page eventually listed. I looked on the web and apparently Google is the only game in town powering all four of the major search engines. If Google can't search I cant get people to find my peoples articles and stuff. What does Perl Monks do about this?

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