[Erwin]

Originally Posted by vissa

Some of you are stating that this would reduce server load, but I am confused by this. Programs like UBB Classic originally used a flat-file type system for the entire board. They then upgraded it to "Threads" that uses MYSQL. Threads can handle many more simultaneous users and posts. Itsn't that what also makes VBulletin able to handle many more users & posts? I previously used UBB which did use flat files and it was much more server intensive.

-Victor

PS: Perhaps this is only true if users do searches/etc? I'm almost certain MYSQL will use less resources on a search than flat files.

UBB classic used CGI to serve up dynamic information based on a flat-file system. It's the CGI/ PERL-based code that is the drain on the server.

However, what we are talking here is static HTML files, not CGI/ PHP based - that is a world of difference to UBB. We are talking about loading up static HTML files.

Great for threads to be read by guests who can't post anyway.

Mind you, I'm sure forum programmers would have thought of this, and if it was this simple to implement, it would have been done already. I'm sure there would be some overhead, which will probably come from the frequent updating of these static HTML files, which would probably override any if not all of the savings in server resources.