A topic of concern in Linux

Lorenzo Prince lorenzo at prince.homelinux.org
Wed Jan 21 08:21:59 EST 2004


The famous speaker who no one had heard of said:
> Problem is, companies have come to the conclusion that they can save on 
> hardware if they do this, as they don't need the processing power and 
> memory to run those scripts on the server, and of course it means they can 
> do stuff with pages that look neat, even if they don't have any/much 
> practical value.

They are mistaken, for 2 reasons:
a)  They will have to spend more money on bandwidth to send the entire script to
    the browser instead of just executing it on the server.

b)  The processor time it takes to execute a little script on the server is
    negligable compared to the amount of bandwidth it takes to send it to the
    browser.

PRINCE




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