[ic] HTML in SQL database

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jeff Dafoe)]

> I want  to run
> several catalogs from one SQL database serving HTML componets from the
> database using them in HTML pages in all catalogs.

    If you end up getting a substantial amount of traffic to your sites this
could end up being a not-so-good idea.  The database server is definitely
one of the weakest, if not the weakest, point in a web application.
Particularly the open source databases which are currently fairly
non-scalable compared to their closed-source counterparts.
    You could accomplish the same thing you want using normal files by
developing your catalog to retrieve the components from a centralized
directory instead of a directory individual to each catalog.


Jeff