Cms Asp.net Create Static Html

Information about cms in aspnet

[kgibbo]

Hello, I would like to know if someone could advice me a simple and stable CMS in asp.net able to generate static html files as pages using a customized template.
CMS should be able to manage files and article with basic permission from the ADMIN (in this case dynamic of course :-).
I can consider any open source or propretary solutions.
Thanks guys for your help! bye

[ergophobe]

I don't do anything with asp.net, so I haven't tried any, but searching on things like

asp.net cms "page caching"
asp.net cms "static caching"

returns a lot of results. Apparently in the ASP.NET CMS world, they dislike posting prices on their websites, since a lot of them have a "call for price" type of thing, but the prices I saw were between $900 per install and $2000/year/install.

The freebies or "community editions" of packages that have both did not have static caching as near as I can tell.

I have a question though - if all you're doing is generating static files and then serving up those, why do you care what technology runs the site? Why asp.net in that case instead of Python, Rails, PHP, etc etc?

BTW ASP.NET 2.0 includes Output Caching, which you can add to any ASP.NET page, but this caches pages in memory, not on the disc.

[kgibbo]

HI ergophobe.
I am interested in asp.net beacuse i have some experience on it and also on IIS and MS server.
Regarding ASP.NET 2.0 includes Output Caching my concern is about memory use.
We would like use the CMS on a chap hosting solution we are thinking to delive static HTML fils withou so many resources in DB and so on could be cheaper.
BTW our content would be very static.
Thanks

[ergophobe]

I realize this isn't helpful and isn't answering your question. Please forgive me.

I just want to point out that you can run PHP just fine on IIS. The problem is with the database - most PHP-based projects will require MySQL or PostreSGL and many of those have static page caching options.

Yeah, yeah, not what you asked. I know. I wish I could be more help on the ASP.NET, but I was surprised at how expensive it was for ASP solutions that include static caching (DotNetNuke, Kentico, Sitefinity all do I think, but with DNN, for example, it doesn't work in the community edition, only the $2000/year version).

>>We would like use the CMS on a chap hosting solution

Did you mean "cheap"? In that case, for the price of the cheapest of the ASP.NET systems that I could find, I could buy eight years of LAMP hosting, so even if it means having two servers - an WIMA (? Win/IIS/MSSQL/ASP.NET) and a LAMP server, you still break even over the first nine years.

Sorry... still not answering your question. Wish I had something more useful to say.

[kgibbo]

hi ergophobe, thanks for your comment :-)
in my case it is not a solution php on ms server, i dont know anything about php :-(
yes you right asp it is expensive but unfortunatelly i am stuck on it :-) thanks for your time.
I also open a post on
[webmasterworld.com...]
would be great have your ideas there thanks for now bye