I'm going to be a setting up a site with several million pages. Of course, I am going to be using Perl to power it all. I wondered if there are any readymade solutions out there that allow:
- Content management by inexperienced users
- Web and shell-based content management
- Template-based design

After seeing how cool Perlmonks.org is, and seeing that it is powered by Everything, I thought I'd give it a look. Unfortunately though, it doesn't really seem to be suitable for me. It's high database dependent, and my site is going to be largely composed of static pages 'built' from templates. Any dynamic elements will be added by SSI. Furthermore, Everything seems to generate all pages dynamically, and I just don't have the hardware to support that kind of load. It also uses question marks in the URLs (read: no spidering).

Is there any readymade product out there, or am I just going to have to do it all the hard way?

In reply to Perl solutions for large web sites? by Anonymous Monk

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