August 20th 2009 Updates

Restored
I've restored us to about a week before the attack just for security measures. It seems some posts didn't complete because the server load was so high, so most would lead to blank pages. Everything is back to normal so no further restoring is needed. So feel free to post back any posts you may have lost. Some of you may need to upload your avatars and signatures again.

If you were V.I.P. and you were removed thanks to this restore, please PM me the transaction number from your receipt so I can give you back VIP.

Members
You may have noticed we lost about 12,000 members. This was done on purpose and is a good thing. I have only removed those members that have less than 10 posts and have not been active in 60 days. At first I made it so that members with less than 1 post were removed, but that only removed about 4,000 members.

Threads
I have removed over 11,000 old threads that have not been replied to in 6 months. This should not only reduce our server load, but also increase our servers speed as google is not constantly indexing these files that no one any longer reads. It could also prevent some people from using out of date tutorials.


Note: All of this is necessary to reduce the server load. Google is still indexing these old topics that no one views anymore. So google is just adding additional load to the server by indexing those posts that no one reads. Most are out of date and an up to date topic had already been posted. I've been wanting to clean up the forums a bit anyway.

Delete a year and further? And then were good :) I will only lose like 100 posts.

oo,thats good its only closed posts and not open ones,that would really drop posts counts

Good. Glad The Server Load Is Getting Faster.

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Originally Posted by Commander_John.

oo,thats good its only closed posts and not open ones,that would really drop posts counts

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Nah it was more than just closed posts. The whole point is to lower post counts. The more posts unactive posts we get rid of the less the server has to keep up with. I've remove topics that have not be posted in the past half year.

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Originally Posted by ChopSuey

Good. Glad The Server Load Is Getting Faster.

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Server load is not how fast a server goes, it's how much stress it's under.

Glad to hear it

finally, i was getting annoyed with the server being too busy

EDIT: Posts of mine that weren't even old were erased...

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Originally Posted by Zeus

Delete a year and further? And then were good :) I will only lose like 100 posts.

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You lost half your posts.

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Originally Posted by SyKotik Cannon

finally, i was getting annoyed with the server being too busy

EDIT: Posts of mine that weren't even old were erased...

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More info on that:
http://www.consolediscussions.com/fo...ppened-t20209/

well the server does seem snappier!
(damn I only have 1400 posts! cool, 1400! yay!!!)