First of all, there isn't anything Perl related to this. You'd have the same issues if you had coded your website in C, Java or some other language.

As for your question, whether it's a good idea or not depends (as usual). Some important factors are: how volatile is the data? How much do you care about performance? How much do the users care about performance?

There is a third option that you haven't mentioned: store the (not marked up) content in a database. Extract the content, and create a static index.html page. Whenever the content in the database changes, update your index.html.

Abigail

In reply to Re: pulling content from db - is it a good idea? by Abigail-II
in thread pulling content from db - is it a good idea? by kiat

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