phongn wrote:I'm half surprised they didn't do a fund drive just to buy a new server.
The issue is time. Kier Darby is the only guy with the proper access to the server, but the forum admins have a hell of a time getting contact with him.
Throw in that Xenforo is being sued by vbulletin's owners and Darby's former employers Internet Brands. So throw in the usual life shattering event of being dragged through the US court system by someone with more money than you and yeah.
The court appointed settlement conference is on Feb 13 at 10:00am California time (GMT -8)
linky, so hopefully the lawsuit will be out of the way soon.
Xenforo's prospects are very dim if the settlement breaks down and the court forces an unfavourable judgement on them. And even appeals on a favourable judgement may go poorly for them simply because it will drag shit out for a long time to come.
EDIT: Whaat? Complete re-read to rebuild the cache? Well, I guess it sounds like a good idea under low-load and easier than incremental cache updates ...
Official bug report:
Linky. It's the cache for tha thread, not the entire cache.
After locking thread limits to 10000 posts, the site only slows to a crawl for maybe an hour when whatever the hell is beating it up at a given time most days instead of being utterly unusable for most of the day with tons of micro-stutters and slowdowns when it is "working".
F.J. Prefect, Esq wrote:The money isn't the issue, it's more that the owner would have to personally go to where the server is and change it over. and that would entail a transatlantic trip.
Nah. The whole server is managed remotely. It's just really damn time consuming to migrate websites to new hosts if you don't have practice.
Having a new machine built to spec, installing everything, and transfering gigabytes of data out of the database & back in again isn't particularly fast and honestly quite tedious.