[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Erwin

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.

I could see issues with the dynamic content for posts, if there was a constant writing to the file system it would be almost as bad as using mysql if not worse