By Jim Carr eb sites now serve up a cornucopia of contents, including basic HTML files, JPEG images, streaming audio and video, database-driven pages created on the fly, and banner ads.
Many Web sites overflow with content from many sources.
Along with an increasingly diverse mixture of file types, the sheer number of files that Web managers must deal with has expanded greatly as well. Web site contains more than 15,000 pages, each of which is composed of multiple HTML, JPEG, GIF, and other files. Large sites may contain as many as 2 million files. Calif. Web managers also must cope with determining who can update content, and how and when they perform updates. A related issue is automating the updating process, especially in online publishing environments, where constantly changing content has a short shelf life.