this is what antoine posted somewhere else in reference to this
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That is a lot...at that moment there were nearly a 1000 people browsing, posting, clicking etc AT THE SAME EXACT TIME! We only have 1 server with what was once decent specs...obviously we need better and faster hardware to keep up with community growth.
Enry can only pull a limited number of server tricks and tweaks...the bottomline is becoming painfully obvious...we need to upgrade and that requires more money...EVERY MONTH!
I'm looking into this more...Another problem we have is Enry is our tech expert and he just doesn't have enough time these days...It would be great if we could get some trusted tech support to assist with server maintenance/upgrades/tweaks etc...
To summarize...We need:
1. More Donations
2. Upgraded Server
3. Upgrade to vBulletin Version 3.5.1
4. Trusted assistance with server maintenance/upgrades/tweaks etc...
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ALSO, we have to make a change to big ass threads. they take up insane amounts of processing time. Making the site faster is the only project we are on right now. everything else is pretty much on hold. so trust that we are getting there