Hi! I am in a process of making a website (which might receive substantial amounts of traffic), and am considering options for the backend. I discarded PHP and other similar server-side scripting languages, due to performance problems (I suspect that PHP and similar could not scale well, unless I implemented complex caching techniques). I plan to use OCaml to generate static .html documents from the content from the database. Since the content will probably change not as often as it will be accessed, I believe this is the better way (as opposed to accessing the database every time a user wants to load the page). 
<br><br>So, OCaml programs will only be run seldomly to access the database and generate HTML files, using the data fetched from the DB. However, I am still worried whether this would cause too much performance impact. <br>
<br>I heard that OCaml is particularly slow (and probably memory-inefficient) when it comes to string manipulation. What is the preferred way in handling strings (building long strings from short parts - something StringBuilder would be used in Java)? Does anybody have any experience concerning this kind of applications?
<br><br>What about the startup time and memory usage of the program? Could these affect the stability and efficiency of the web server?<br><br>(Hope someone will be able to decipher my language and care to answer :P )<br>
<br>&nbsp;- Tom<br>