Big Posts Strain Server Or Not ??
 

hi, I have a question,

do Big Posts Strain Server Or Not ??

I changed the default amount of characters that a single post can handle.

Maximum Characters Per Post i changed to 40,000

Are there any side-effects to doing such a thing? or is it purely cosmetic

I really appreciate your help thanks

Dunno, just seems to take an age to load the page, that's all.

Why would you want to allow posts of 40,000 characters ?

It would not strain the server, but I'd hate to have to read such a post .........

To Post interesting Articles of course.

I'd probably use something like GARS with page breaks in that case.

Interesting never seen The Geek's mods.

The only thing that could strain a database server is either poorly configured relations (vBulletin has a lot of indices thankfully but because MySQL sucks with foreign keys, it isn't 100% perfect) or doing a lot of relations in one query or a relation with an unindexed field in a table with lots of rows.

A thread could have a billion posts and it wouldn't make a difference for almost any operation.

thanks, interesting stuff

i was concerned with very long posts with lots of characters. :)