ssi reliability question.

[atomicmunky]

hello, i hope everyone had a great new year's eve.

here's a queation that just popped into my head.

i'm debating on using ssi to include a navigation bar on the top of every page. but i'm a little hesitant to do that simply for the fear of (or i should say lack of knowledge of) an ssi call failing. does that happen at all?

i mean, i don't want to put nav links as an ssi on the chance that it might not work. then the user has no navigation to use.

any thoughts?

[prequel]

well for me i have up to 10 SSI elements per page on one of my sites which has 2,000 html pages and it works pretty well doing 20 - 30k pageviews/day

[syanet]

There's no reason it should fail unless the host has a problem in which your site probaly wouldn't be accesable at all. I use SSI on all my sites and recommend it to you as well.

[atomicmunky]

thanks for the info.
i decided to go with it last night (SSI that is...)
i've already done about 10-15 pages that way and the amount of stress was definitely considerably less than had i not used SSI.