DISQUS

Rarst · 1 year ago

Hm, as far as I understand sitemap is generated only when content changes with Arne's plugin. How is runiing it for two seconds (for my blog) per post is high resource usage?

Mayank · 1 year ago

Well, the script is actually resource hungry. Try to understand it like this.. .what is your computer's usage when you launch Adobe Photoshop? So every time you make a post, arne's plugin acts as photoshop (in terms of resource usage). Now there are many blogs on webservers and if each of them is running this script, then what will happen to the webserver??

I hope this clears the doubt.

Rarst · 1 year ago

I understand that it may add up if there are hundreds sites on same server (as in cheap hositng). But on cheap hosting anything can be called high-resource usage - I had once lost wiki that wasn't even using database and had total of three daily visitors. I may be wrong but tons of plugins that people use at the same time and at each page load are probably creating incomparably more load than sitemap generator.

btw read recently that Google accepts RSS feeds for sitemap, may be esay alternative. Hadn't tried myself yet.

James · 11 months ago

Great article, thanks for the information. In my view sitemaps are critical to getting your site listed in Google/Yahoo etc. correctly.