The last few nights ive been using PF in the evenings and noticed it has become very slow (Nobodys mentioned it to me or pet though )

So Pet sat up last night until the early hours and has discovered that when users access topics created before the big server problem we had early last year, it creates a massive overhead. Now... the problem is, its a lot more time consuming to find the cause of teh problem that makes these old posts stress out the server than it is to simply DELETE ALL TOPICS BEFORE MAY 2004 And thus we are looking at losing around 500pages of general Discussion alone... This would leave It with only 1300 or so pages of history sadly... A few other forums have been pruned today allready so you may well feel the impact allready.

So, we have decided that is the way to go as lets face it, these topics are almost 18months old and of no immidiate use, so it will be done hopefully some time today, so if any of you think theres any info stored on this server that you would like to retain, you had best get access to it and save it all as soon as possible.

THIS INCLUDES PM's YOU WILL LOSE THEM ALL TODAY

I have sent a mass mail directing everyone to this topic so no one can complain that they lost their info or PM's, and for those of you who dont get this message in time, we can only appologise for any inconvenience caused.

Any Comments?

Edited to update:.....:::: THIS WILL NOW HAPPEN ABOUT 1PM UK TIME ::::.....

 

If its for the good of the whole then its the ONLY thing to do



Keep up the GREAT work chaps!!!


Alex

 

Fair enough Stu

 

But i like all the topics from back then



Hope it sorts the problem out Stu

 

its been slow at nite for months sinse the search thing came back on

 

Go for it Stu,whats bene on once,i have no boubt will be back again at some point...

P.S Cheers for the PM..

Pete..

 

nope, we now know it's not because of the search function
trust me

 

Nice one

Any news of PF WAP coming back Pet?

 

OK how about moving all these old topics to a seperate database?

Maybe shove it on another server or something and call it passionfordarchive.com ?

that was the info is still there if peeps need it for info purposes. would be a shame to lose it all.

 

Stu there has been plenty of posts about the speed problem. I've seen at least 3 different ones over the last 2 weeks.

I'm glad it's being sorted though

 

Cool

 

i agree cant it be archived i have found a lot of usefully info there would be a shame to lose it all as for pms i dont get any lol, im sure u do whats best

 

Well if I read that right... Goodbye Tony's resto thread... GREAT

 

what.. will ALL pms be deleted ? or just the old ones?

 

thanks for the effort you put to keep our internet lives going

 

Ok i cant argue with that better read all my pms now then and save anythin i need

 

3 posts in 2 weeks is quite easy to miss when you dont come on often and the forum moves a tidy 2.1million posts in 2 weeks

 

Now thats a good idea

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! Thats mine too and a fair few other peoples as well

 

Stu, Pet,

You might want to explain to people who only read in between lines and haven't quite seen this part of your message how to save the threads they are interested in.... plain or froggy english will do.....

 

Thanks for the support... lol

 

Is it possible to set up a text only archive? Stripping out images and signatures etc would save a lot of memory and simplify searches.

 

move the old posts to a seperate database!! Easy!

 

AND.... how do we save threads, ie .. resto threads

 

just to clarify : only posts with NO reply since the 1st of May 2004 will be deleted. No other one will be !
So no panic, please This only concerns the last 500 pages of Gen Dis forum, no other !
This is not a size prob, this is an index prob. Those old posts are not indexed correctly in the DB, and they cause the site to slowdown each time someone visits one, or the lasts pages of Gen Dis.

 

Glad the problems sorted stu/pet

 

tough times calls for tough measures

 

SimonT, yes this is a good idea, and i already had it. It will be done for archive purposes

 

No probs Stu, think Rad did post about it last night

 

Thats a relief

 

Dont take offence Stu, its just 40 pages of probably in excess of 2000 pics is alot to loose IMO

LOL, but anyway Now Pet has Clarified that issue....

CRACK on cheers guys

 

Do what you've got to do I suppose

However, even though my resto thread is post-May 2004, it'd be a REAL shame to lose the others, like Tony's for example. That thread is possibly the best one on PassionFord, so it needs to be saved in some sort of format, or copied and reposted? Same must surely apply for the techincal discussion essay threads?

Have we got a time when this deletion will occur?

 

Great minds think alike!

 

Nice one Stu & Pet

 

Right, that's good news.

 

SimonT ->
BTW, i love your sig

 

Im surprised you translated "poundit.php" TBH Froggie

 

Yeah it has been slow, but only sometimes, do what needs doing!

 

i already heard it before Stu, that's why i got it

 

thanx for the warning

 

You could take the approach of trying to see why its so slow.

Maybe the database server needs more memory, or the database needs indexing. Small things like these have enormous impact on performance.