[amykhar]

Google has finally started crawling my board and guest traffic has started to increase. Things started to get rather sluggish. I upgraded my hosting plan to get more RAM and it helped somewhat, but not dramatically.

Then, I put an index on the dateline column in the posts table. OMG I can't believe the difference. Parts of the VBstats hack used to drive server load way up before. Now, I can actually use it without a wimper from the server. I can also use the hack that shows how many posts were made since the last visit now. Before, it just wasn't feasible.

My board isn't huge, but a decent size. If your medium to large board is starting to struggle, you might want to try this. I didn't do it in the past because I kept seeing Freddie telling people that it wasn't necessary. But I am really seeing a huge improvement.

Amy