Erik Zachte, 17/03/2013 21:26:
Nemo, after rethinking, I probably misunderstood your suggestion.
You probably mean one extra set of html files which is rebuilt every month with one row added and existing rows unchanged. Rather than a full set of html files published every month and all those monthly editions fully kept online.
No, your first interpretation was correct. I don't know what would be confusing and surely I didn't imagine the 20 GB figure, which however should not be the worst of the problems (there's disk space available for some dozen years of that): I was just trying to imagine what's the most sensible/efficient solution (in terms of coding and thinking required) for the problem. :)
I'm still not sure whether two sets of data wouldn't add to the confusion, but disk size would not be an issue really.
Yes, if you go for this new system it would perhaps be worth prividing also the "old way" report somewhere, unless it complicates the code or processing too much.
Nemo