TERMINALFOUR Site Manager allows you to publish your content in either of 2 ways:
Unless changes to websites need to occur at or near real time, i.e. on a second by second basis, there are very many reasons why the repeat periodic static approach is best. The first reason is one of security. It is clearly more secure to have the live host machine physically separated from the enterprise database store. Even if a hack attempt is successful, the entire site can be recopied up immediately, thus keeping damage to a minimum. Secondly, performance is greatly increased since page hits do not involve querying the database and so there are no performance overheads to think about when site traffic is high.
TERMINALFOUR Site Manager can offer the best of both worlds, as follows. For maximum security and optimised page serving, repeat periodic static generation can be used to build the vast majority of your web pages. Where the need exists in some instances to serve content which is changing very rapidly, such specific elements alone can be delivered dynamically.
For performance reasons, in the case of static site generation, TERMINALFOUR Site Manager uses a number of devices to minimise the time for publishing to take place, what we call “hashing & caching”. Caching takes advantage of memory storage to speed up the publishing process itself.
After content has been approved for publication, it will appear on the target channel/web sites automatically or when the appropriate Power User or system Administrator initiates an update of the channel or web sites.
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