[Tigga]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

I have no issue with any plugin, only DB's, that is what i said on page 1 from the start, that i stay away from his plugins because of this issue which puts my site down until the entire process finishes.

I doubt many others make as many table alterations as his, simply because they're not necessary for that modification or because the author may not realize that altering a vB table would be better than trying to keep up with separate tables. I fully agree that it's best to avoid altering vB tables when you can, but it's often not the best practice if you want an add-on to run smoothly and without taking up any extra server resources. I'd much rather have it shut down my forum for 10 minutes during the install than to have it running extra queries during every page load after that. A 6 hour install time is obviously different, but apparently you're the only one that's experiencing times that are anywhere near that extreme, so I'd say it sounds more like DB has things balanced correctly and it's your server configuration that is suspect.