I run a very large vBulletin 3.0.7 board at gallifreyone.com/forum with 10,705 Members, 944,059 Total Messages. The size of the database is currently 1.3 gigs. We don't allow attachments; that's just the message base size.
I'm on a very powerful server but things slow down a little here and there and I'm wondering... should I start pruning things away? I hate to do it, but that nearly 1 million messages has been posted only in twelve months and we continue to have massive numbers of messages posted each day.
I'm interested in hearing what you may think... should I prune away about half of that, or is it okay to continue with messages for some time?
I'm on a very powerful server but things slow down a little here and there and I'm wondering... should I start pruning things away? I hate to do it, but that nearly 1 million messages has been posted only in twelve months and we continue to have massive numbers of messages posted each day.
I'm interested in hearing what you may think... should I prune away about half of that, or is it okay to continue with messages for some time?
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