Lessons from Running a 2,300-Page Government Jobs Portal on Laravel
We run HiSarkariResult , a Laravel site that tracks Indian government job notifications, exam results, admit cards, answer keys, syllabus pages and admission notices. Today our XML sitemap lists about 2,300 URLs, split roughly like this: Section URLs in sitemap Results ~1,230 Syllabus ~940 Jobs ~100 Admission ~40 That's not huge by web standards, but a site like this has some specific quirks.…
The article discusses the challenges and learnings from managing a high-volume government jobs portal hosted on the Laravel framework. With over 2,300 URLs in its XML sitemap, the site categorizes content into sections such as jobs, results, syllabi, and admission notices. To manage the site's content lifecycle effectively, the author suggests modeling data around its stages, using a single posts table with a "type" column and a nullable "recruitment_id" to group related posts.
This approach reduces redundancy and streamlines content management. The article also provides a code example of a PHP enum to keep track of allowed post types in the Laravel application.
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