Big Posts Strain Server Or Not ??

[zooki]

hi, I have a question,

do Big Posts Strain Server Or Not ??

I changed the default amount of characters that a single post can handle.

Maximum Characters Per Post i changed to 40,000

Are there any side-effects to doing such a thing? or is it purely cosmetic

I really appreciate your help thanks

[Foaly]

Dunno, just seems to take an age to load the page, that's all.

[Paul M]

Why would you want to allow posts of 40,000 characters ?

It would not strain the server, but I'd hate to have to read such a post .........

[zooki]

Originally Posted by Paul M

Why would you want to allow posts of 40,000 characters ?

It would not strain the server, but I'd hate to have to read such a post .........

To Post interesting Articles of course.

[Freesteyelz]

I'd probably use something like GARS with page breaks in that case.

[zooki]

Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

I'd probably use something like GARS with page breaks in that case.

Interesting never seen The Geek's mods.

[filburt1]

The only thing that could strain a database server is either poorly configured relations (vBulletin has a lot of indices thankfully but because MySQL sucks with foreign keys, it isn't 100% perfect) or doing a lot of relations in one query or a relation with an unindexed field in a table with lots of rows.

A thread could have a billion posts and it wouldn't make a difference for almost any operation.

[zooki]

Originally Posted by filburt1

The only thing that could strain a database server is either poorly configured relations (vBulletin has a lot of indices thankfully but because MySQL sucks with foreign keys, it isn't 100% perfect) or doing a lot of relations in one query or a relation with an unindexed field in a table with lots of rows.

A thread could have a billion posts and it wouldn't make a difference for almost any operation.

thanks, interesting stuff

i was concerned with very long posts with lots of characters.