[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by fenris

Hy,

i have the a dedicated servers from the hoster gator ( the bigegst one ). the php and the sql are the latest. i have round about 32000 members - i dont now, how many members are active - i think, i have 10000 - 150000 active members on board.
must i delete the inactive members ?

best regards

Frank

My best guess is you do not have to do anything you do not wish but you may wish to consider a few things. One is that regardless of what the people whom code up programs say, there are limitations to them like anything else has limitations. Huge Data bases simply become less stable in my experience. Now saying that I do not have a lot of experience here. Still if you can segergate parts of the community off it may be better for all. You can have a coder set you up a seperate database that holds archived threads and also inactive members and not delete any of them but simply put them in a new catagory.

Have you ran your data base tools as well to clean up glitches and such or find errors in the data base query section of your forum?

The reason my coder has been AWOL for such a time is that he and a team are working to correct a 2 Gig Data base that is corrupted and you may well have just minor glitches in yours that caught now could save you worlds of trouble later on.