How Dietly Serves 850,000 Food Pages From a Single Server Using Static HTML
Dietly, a food nutrition platform, pre-renders over 850,000 food pages as static HTML files during build time rather than generating them dynamically on each request. This approach eliminates database and API calls from the reader path, with Caddy and Cloudflare handling delivery of the pre-built files. Each food page is assigned a stable, sharded URL and tracked via a content hash and sitemap timestamp, so incremental builds only rewrite pages whose data has actually changed. Dynamic features like search and barcode lookups remain API-driven, while the static layer handles the bulk of public page traffic. The architecture keeps the generated web root on a separate volume, ensuring clean operational boundaries and preventing accidental 404s during rebuilds.
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