Archiving will take place on Sunday to address the slowness

[imported_Chuck Weinstock]

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Mat, just out of curiosity...do you guys optimize/analyze the database at all, or do you just archive older posts to another server every so often?

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We do both (and prefer not to archive). The problem is, that as we have gotten over 6 million posts in the main forums it gets harder and harder to keep up. However a hardware change and database optimization on Wednesday night seems to have dealt with the immediate problem and alleviated the need for a major archive at this time.

We will, however, only be taking about three months worth of active threads over to vbulletin when we make the transition. These forums will then become a defacto archive.

Chuck