Any Static Page CMS out there?

More CMS than a Blogger

[Livenomadic]

I know MT is a static page Blogger (technically it is a CMS, but we wont get into that here).

However, I am looking to improve my load time for my site and static pages seems a sure fire way to do it.

Any suggestions for a static output CMS?

[akogo]

I use Drupal. It can turn dynamic pages to static.

[mincklerstraat]

Drupal is cool but may be a problem with some shared hosts. Post-nuke recently added caching (generation of static pages). You can also check into a general caching option - I've been experimenting with jpcache and am relatively happy with it, even though it seems not to have been developed for a while. There's a newer spinoff called albertcache. These are very easy-to-use 'drop-in' caching systems that only require a line of code at the beginning of your script run in the parts you want cached, a couple of lines in the cache config script file, and changing the permissions on a directory. Be sure to put the cache directory under your webroot. Can improve page return dramatically, it's almost scary. Nice to hear more people are becoming cache-aware; this is a very important aspect of a web that's a pleasant place to be.

[drbrain]

I use ZenWeb. Its far more customizable than it looks at first glance, and supports partial updates and so-forth. Its metadata system is a very, very handy.

[outrun]

Typo3 caches pages and also can have a combination of dynamic and converted static pages.

regards,
Mark

[NeedScripts]

You might also want to check out Mambo, also if you like phpnuke, then visit www.nukecops.com and they have mod within the script that will make entire website/phpnuke static.

Vishal

[claus]

If you do visit mambo, be sure to check out this article:
"Can your PHP/MySQL CMS handle a Slashdotting?" - i'd post the link, but i'm not sure if it's okay. You can try their site search for "slashdot" though. In essence: e107 beats Drupal, Mambo, PostNuke and two others.

Also, there's a nonprofit site called "cms matrix" that you might want to check out for comparisons of various CMS'es.

[Marcia]

One thing to watch out for is that these put out pages that are shown as duplicates with different URLs.

[maccas]

It is also more of a blogger but have you had a look at greymatter.

[bill]

I thought they stopped development of greymatter years ago. Did they start back up again?

[gethan]

> One thing to watch out for is that these put out pages that are shown as duplicates with different URLs.

Very good point - use robots.txt to block robots from the "dynamic" parts of your site.