<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'm actually quite amazed that they were getting decent performance out of VB without using a mysql slave to do the SELECT queries on in the first place. Wonder if they're using a 64-bit flavor for mysql on the backend. </div><div><br></div><div>I do feel for them though, I've had to deal with rebuilding a VB database after an ugly crash. For a popular site or one that's been around for awhile, the database size is immense.</div><br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Nick Ali wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jim Lynch<br><<a href="mailto:ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com">ale_nospam@fayettedigital.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Anyone know what's up with Ubuntuforums.org? It's been in various<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">stages of DOWN for about 24 hours. No news on ubuntu.com.<br></blockquote><br>If you still want to know what happened:<br><a href="http://moxiefoxtrot.com/2009/01/14/recent-ubuntuforums-downtime/">http://moxiefoxtrot.com/2009/01/14/recent-ubuntuforums-downtime/</a><br><br>nick<br><br>-- <br><br><a href="http://boredandblogging.com">http://boredandblogging.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>