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Made the million mark, so what next? · **Released**: 08-31-2007

OK, I have a small private board, (invite only), with just 215 active members who in 18 months have hit the million post mark. All the 'safety stops' such as time between posts and searches have been disabled, (New Posts is very popular!). I've done no server optimization or mySQL tweaks. It's pretty much out of the box stuff with a few template mods and some addons. I'm running it on a hosted dedicated server, (Celeron 2.8GHz w/1GB RAM)

As we continue to grow and approach our second million posts what should I be looking at doing to improve performance and reliability so that it doesn't come crashing down around me?

I have 6 months before the contract is up on my current server, so plenty of time to look for something more suitable if need be, although cost is an issue of course. If any of you guys could point me in the direction of further research for tweaks and optimization techniques, with suggestions of which you think are the important ones to tackle first, I'd really appreciate it.

(While I'm no idiot I have absolutely no experience with this other than installing it and keeping it running!)

Marco van Herwaarden · #12 11-07-2007, 04:09 AM

If you are able to run on a shared account, then it is for sure not a Big Board as intended for this forum.

This forum was created so admins of Big Boards can discuss topics that come with running a board larger then the average. Thinks you can think of are: Multi server setups, specialised search routines (Sphinx), etc..

Everything that goes beyond what a 'normal sized' board would need to do in order to make their site work.

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