[mykes]

Originally Posted by Zachery

mykes, do you really know what you are talking about?


Brian has been running the software for ages on his own rather large forum.

Now, the things that could cause the load are any full table scans.

Are you showing the ammount of new posts / threads since last visit or anything else?

I turned the stats module OFF. As well as most of the modules, except for the news one, latest forum topics, and the show users.

If the hack requires indexes to be created, it should create them.

Or the install instructions should include info on which ones need to be created.

If people running big sites run this out of the box, it's got a huge potential to tank their whole site.

I apologize for sounding alarmist over this, but it is a huge deal when you install something like this and it takes your site off the air for 15 minutes.