[imported_silkroad]

Originally Posted by NLP-er

I don't know google spiders algorithms, but if you will not expose some languages google definitively will not visit it

After running this great mod for around 4-5 days, I can advise that, for big boards with hundreds of thousands of posts, this mod will use a lot of disk space. Please keep in mind, there is a huge difference in translating 400K pages compared to 20K as far as storage requirements.

We have nearly 400K pages indexed by Google, and based on the current G index of newly translated pages compared to the size of the database, we will would use over 1 TB of disk space to store translations for all 28 flags in the database.

We don't have 1 TB of storage available for translations at this time , so until we have a new storage configuration that can store over a TB of data, we will only expose the Top 10 Internet-population languages.

We will monitor this for another week, and if the database continues to grow, we will have to cut back to the Top 5 because we can't allocate 100s of GB to translations. We did not size our server that large . FWIW: I am thinking to move the translation dB to Amazon EC2 and redirect translated pages to EC2 in the future.

It would be great to hear from others running this mod for many months to post how many posts and threads they have in vB, the number of translated links indexed by Google, and the size of their translated dB. Please post, thanks!

Thanks again for a great mod.

Also, I look forward to report back on search engine referral traffic increases in the coming months