Poll: This Affects* Everyone and The Site so Please Vote!
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:37 am
MC has been having speed issues and a number of problems for the past year. The reason for this is because our database is ginormous, way larger than the average website. That’s because we are a message board with images, hundreds of thousands of posts, thousands of users, and extensions that all use up space stored in the database. I’ve been doing what I can to keep things going as well as possible but as we reach the 2 year mark it’s getting difficult.
At this point getting a dedicated server is out of my price range plus the time spent to manage a server is a lot.
My current options are to start purging posts, attachments, and users that were around since the beginning but haven’t been seen since.
Or cutting down the number of styles and extensions that we use. I have done that with some extensions that are either incompatible or way too large and it helps but I know how much everyone hates that.
Or we can leave things as they are now and I can continue to make small tweaks and fixes to the database until I can figure out a way to get a managed server that won’t cost as much as my mortgage per month.
I’m going to leave this up to you guys since we’re all in this together. Let me know what you think.
At this point getting a dedicated server is out of my price range plus the time spent to manage a server is a lot.
My current options are to start purging posts, attachments, and users that were around since the beginning but haven’t been seen since.
Or cutting down the number of styles and extensions that we use. I have done that with some extensions that are either incompatible or way too large and it helps but I know how much everyone hates that.
Or we can leave things as they are now and I can continue to make small tweaks and fixes to the database until I can figure out a way to get a managed server that won’t cost as much as my mortgage per month.
I’m going to leave this up to you guys since we’re all in this together. Let me know what you think.