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Originally Posted by DaFace
I've wondered about it. Part of our problem is that we have a post table with like 15 million rows, and that gets accessed and sorted literally every time someone loads a thread.
But in theory, that SHOULD be a surmountable problem, and there's no question that the deep history of this place is part of its appeal. I'd be hesitant to just throw all of that out if we can get around it (and I think we can).
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That's a valid point regarding performance, though. For my work, we deal with billions of rows of data, and in order to free up some bandwidth on the server (deal with a Greenplum database currently), older data and tables are consistently deleted.
Not sure what infrastructure is supported on the back end (again, not claiming to be an IT expert I just happen to have to be aware of a lot of the back end stuff as part of my work), but may likely either just need to enhance the current state to keep everything. If not, deleting stuff might be the way to go.
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Originally Posted by DaFace
The good news is that (as noted above), there are migration tools that should make SOME of the transition a little easier. But as you alluded to, there are endless little snags you tend to run into along the way, and it doesn't help that this isn't even a "pure" install of vB 3.8 - it's been upgraded like 10 times starting with 2.1 (I think), so there's all sorts of shitty code lying around that could cause issues along the way.
In the end, it's entirely possible that Kyle will choose to just migrate to a new server and keep vB 3.8 as is. It's old, and it's shitty, but in theory just getting onto a new box that keeps the db on an SSD would take care of most of our issues, so if that's the easy path forward compared to starting from scratch on new software, it is what it is.
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Even if there is some form of migration on older software, you're still looking at hours which can turn to days/weeks of perfecting the migration with regards to getting everything up and running just by the sheer nature of the activity of migration. The timeline would be (understandably) pro-longed since this forum is maintained by people as a hobby.
Which is why I don't get scho's bitching at all.