914world is showing its age Options

[SirAndy]

914world is showing its age (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

The recent outage was not due to some cyber attack or malicious plotting from the darkest depths of the interwebs.

It was simply due to the forum software being overwhelmed by the amount of data stored here combined with the amount of traffic we're receiving.

Fact is, the software we're running on is more than 20 years old, written at a time when the internet was a much different place.
It was never meant to run for this long or handle the amount of data we have accumulated.


So what are our options?

- Keep going until everything crashes and burns into a pile.

- Start over fresh with a new server with new forum software. We'd be losing everything we have.

- Try to fix some of the issues by re-writing parts of the software, reworking the database and changing the way uploaded images are stored. Maybe even update the server itself while we're in there.


While the last choice seems the obvious one, the problem is that i do have a day-job that needs my attention and my time is limited.
It would also mean i'd probably have to shut down the site for a longer period of time, maybe a week or two, and maybe more than once.
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[emerygt350]

ZFS could probably handle a folder like that, but that is no reason to keep doing what is rather poor practice.

I preserve several websites for posterity (science stuff). Stuff running on cold fusion and other long dead technologies.

Having the old site there for history is critical to me. We lost Foureyedpride.com and there were decades of really important information from engineers that are no longer with us, stories from Ford employees, etc. All gone.

Definitely move to free and new but hopefully choose something with a sane backend (like mysql or whatever flavor you like). I wouldn't bother importing old info if you can preserve what we have like a museum piece (put it up on blocks?).

[mb911]

ZFS could probably handle a folder like that, but that is no reason to keep doing what is rather poor practice.

I preserve several websites for posterity (science stuff). Stuff running on cold fusion and other long dead technologies.

Having the old site there for history is critical to me. We lost Foureyedpride.com and there were decades of really important information from engineers that are no longer with us, stories from Ford employees, etc. All gone.

Definitely move to free and new but hopefully choose something with a sane backend (like mysql or whatever flavor you like). I wouldn't bother importing old info if you can preserve what we have like a museum piece (put it up on blocks?).

Man I was on foureyedpride for a few years. That was a great site