SITE INFO/ We finally archived internal engine
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SITE INFO/ We finally archived internal engine All posts from 2001 through 2002 have now been archived. We still need to rebuild that forum (tonite) and then it will be searchable.
Sorry for the outage today but this forum was way too big and it's been taking us weeks to archive it during off hours.
We can do the other forums late at nite but we had to do this one since it's the one that slows the site down the most.
I've got a huge headache from staring at the screen I think I'll go get a beer. <img border="0" alt="[chug]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_chug.gif" />
PSJ
Sorry for the outage today but this forum was way too big and it's been taking us weeks to archive it during off hours.
We can do the other forums late at nite but we had to do this one since it's the one that slows the site down the most.
I've got a huge headache from staring at the screen I think I'll go get a beer. <img border="0" alt="[chug]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_chug.gif" />
PSJ
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Re: SITE INFO/ We finally archived internal engine Just to add a little more color...
Our server setup is pretty ideal, it's like a 9 on a 10 scale according to our software (UBB.Classic) providers.
What kills site speed is when folks do searches, and the search has to plow through 85,000 posts.
If we get slow again, which I do not anticipate, OR if we get continual site errors, we will most likely migrate to UBB.Threads which is very similar
The UBB folks were pretty impressed with how much traffic we have. While we are not their biggest community, since they have some 30,000 member sites, our members are as active as some of their five biggest sites. What got out of control is the size of the forums. Most UBB's prune their threads back and we won't ever do that with tech stuff.
So, I was asked to explain, our issues have not been hardware whatsoever. We can hardly improve on the hardware side except to perhaps add more RAM.
Our primary mission will be to keep the site fast but not at the expensive of deleting all the tech info from the past two years.
Q. John why not prune some of the stuff in the Internal Engine Archive?
A. 9500 threads baby you do it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Our server setup is pretty ideal, it's like a 9 on a 10 scale according to our software (UBB.Classic) providers.
What kills site speed is when folks do searches, and the search has to plow through 85,000 posts.
If we get slow again, which I do not anticipate, OR if we get continual site errors, we will most likely migrate to UBB.Threads which is very similar
The UBB folks were pretty impressed with how much traffic we have. While we are not their biggest community, since they have some 30,000 member sites, our members are as active as some of their five biggest sites. What got out of control is the size of the forums. Most UBB's prune their threads back and we won't ever do that with tech stuff.
So, I was asked to explain, our issues have not been hardware whatsoever. We can hardly improve on the hardware side except to perhaps add more RAM.
Our primary mission will be to keep the site fast but not at the expensive of deleting all the tech info from the past two years.
Q. John why not prune some of the stuff in the Internal Engine Archive?
A. 9500 threads baby you do it. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
