stewie wrote:So lemme guess what caused this...you moved the server from Linux to Vista, right?

russ wrote:

TheMilford wrote:Russ,

Should you maybe "archive" the older stuff and make it so you have to choose how far back you want to search?

Yeah, I was thinking about that, but that still doesn't completely fix the search feature.

It's pretty common to move old posts to an archive forum of some sort to ease the load.

We could also upgrade the forum software. I'm sure the newer version of phpBB handles searching better/smarter.

It might also mean that we're just to load intensive for our current host and we might have to move to a bigger/beefier/non-shared one.

There's no doubt that some things on the site are starting to show their age.

russ wrote:

stewie wrote:So lemme guess what caused this...you moved the server from Linux to Vista, right?

HAHA. Yeah. That's it. How'd you know.

Actually, I'm running it off the new iPhone.

When Microsoft purchased Hotmail, they tried to convert everything to Windows NT 4.0, and it was a disaster. A wintroll COLA poster using the moniker "Drestin Black" was working on the project, and was quite brazen in his boasts that Hotmail would be running on Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange within a year. The project failed, and Hotmail was still on FreeBSD and Solaris.

When Windows 2000 came out, Microsoft tried again, and again, our friend Drestin Black was happy to boast about how Windows 2000 would blow UNIX out of the water. About all Micrososft was able to do was replace the front-end web server machines with IIS. Even then hotmail got hit by Nimda and some other viruses, but Microsoft has tried to keep as many of the public facing http servers as possible configured as Windows-IIS machines. Originally, it took 4 times as many Windows machines as UNIX machines to maintain stable and redundant connectivity.