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There is a site on ASP.NET MVC 5. The site have top-level sections - department of finance, department of customers services, etc. There are some entities like News, Materials, Permanent Pages. Currently it uses very simple routing system like : 

http://awesomesite.com/en/finance/news
http://awesomesite.com/ch/customer/news?id=213
http://awesomesite.com/ru/archieve/page?id=333

where top-level sections (customer, finance) referenced to controllers and methods respectively. I need to modify this logic : let's say that there will be some breaking news, important materials or permalink pages. In this case it should have an unique URL defined by moderator\admin (dynamic). Example:

http://awesomesite.com/en/iwillbeback - actually it links to ../customer/news?id=21
http://awesomesite.com/en/announcementfromboss => ../archieve/page?id=666
http://awesomesite.com/ru/ourawesomesoftware => ../materials?id=001

Here arise a question. How can it be implemented on ASP.NET MVC? If I got some non-pattern URL, then my system should understand, what controller\method\id it actually links to. And as this pages ,materials , news will be added by non-programmer manager via some simple CMS, they will do something like : add a file -> select a departament -> write URL.

How can I solve this problem? I have an idea to create a table in DB like:

controller   method   arguments  generatedUrl
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finance      materials   id=211  annualreport2015

I found similar approach here. However, if this site will be used by more than 50 000 users in the same time, will the perfomance be the headache? As I see, each request will invoke some search in DB. What could you suggest?

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  • You could theoretically do something in your router config to load them from a database/file/whatever at start up time... But this is an awfully broad question, mostly because you're asking several questions, but especially since you haven't tried anything yourself. Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 17:27
  • @MikeMcCaughan, yeah, my bad. Just it is currently working site with a lot of users, so I can't do some experiments. Thought that there are some standard approaches to solve this case. Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 17:30
  • it all depends on the order of your route bindings. if you declare the route bindings for the static data first (e.g., {language}/finance/news/, {language}/archive/page), and then a catch-all, the catch-all could grab the custom url value ({language}/{vanityUrl}), then you would have to access a database to find the actual redirect url. You can use Server.Transfer() to maintain the vanity url, or Response.Redirect() to make the user's browser redirect to the actual url. (this is a comment as it is extremely high level) ex: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y4k58xk7(v=vs.110).aspx Commented Nov 30, 2016 at 17:36
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