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I completely understand not allowing search for non-paying members but don't you think you should be allowed to look at all of the threads that you've posted in? In other words, when I got to my control panel and try to "View all posts by ans7812" shouldn't I be allowed to see them? Not complaining, just wondering if there's a reason behind it.
 
I'm no techie, but maybe because it uses the search engine to do that, and you can't set things both ways at the same time. Just a guess.
 
That was what I figured initially. I just thought it would be ok for each member to be able to search for their own threads. Sometimes it's not easy to keep up with multiple threads that you post in :confused:
 
ans7812 said:
That was what I figured initially. I just thought it would be ok for each member to be able to search for their own threads. Sometimes it's not easy to keep up with multiple threads that you post in :confused:
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you can subscribe to threads i believe.
 
gundude73 said:
you can subscribe to threads i believe.
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+1 - that is what I do, and when I need to search I just use google site search.

It works for 95% of my needs.

Does bladeforums run a dedicated server? I am just wondering. The searches should not take that much resource on such a small database - I doubt the total size of the forum database is much over 5GB, and that is relatively small in terms of a database to search.

It pays to optimize the out-of box set of indexing that comes from vbulletin. There are reports you can run to see the long running queries if searching is taking a lot of timerons.

I am just curious and interested in how the vbulletin / server handles a larger board such as this one.

best regards -

mqqn
 
With over 1000 people on the forum at any given time (usually a lot more than that) and over 6.8 million posts to search through, I don't think I'd call it small. The last I heard, they had a pair of dedicated servers for redundancy and suspected problems with the firewalls causing bottlenecks, but that was a while back.
 
yablanowitz said:
With over 1000 people on the forum at any given time (usually a lot more than that) and over 6.8 million posts to search through, I don't think I'd call it small. The last I heard, they had a pair of dedicated servers for redundancy and suspected problems with the firewalls causing bottlenecks, but that was a while back.
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Hi yablanowitz -

I was not trying to sound like I was demeaning the forum - that is not my intent, I am just curious.

In my line of work, a 6 million row table is not a large one at all.

When you get into the billions, then you're talking.

Certainly for a vbulletin board it is large.

Thanks for the answer re the two dedicated servers - that should be more than sufficient for this workload.

best regards -

mqqn
 
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