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Originally Posted by katie hunter

It was more than 6 hours and you wouldn't be able to do anything other than wait for the task to completely finish. Have you tried DB's plugin, any of them on big sites? try it and see! you must have thousands of members. The table will lock to process each batch of changes and you will wait that much, even on a powerful dedicated server with 12 cores and 3.5 ghz speed and using SSD drives

Right, and any modification that adds columns to a table is going to lock the table while those columns are added. As others have stated it shouldn't take that long even with that many users, especially with that much hardware. Something with your mysql configuration isn't optimal or needs to be adjusted.

Also, do you mean 2.5mhz? Intel E5 processors? Not that it matters, that's still a lot of processing power.

Anyway, I have a feeling this new vbSEO management has something to do Juan's sister: http://admin-talk.com/threads/dear-v...rations.43684/

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Originally Posted by katie hunter

They didn't treat their members bad, their staff just broke down in disagreement and partially it involved a family dispute. This can happen with any company if it doesn't have strong backbone.

Umm.. how is what happened not treating their members badly? The family dispute had nothing to do with the product continuing to be sold with no support, and then the site just closing without notice. People were being strung along for an update for months. Sales were in decline, Juan jumped ship with customers still on board.