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Originally posted by Swamper Search hasn't been down for maintenance in months, and, the last time it was taken down was in December when there were 1200+ users online - and even then it was only for 2 hours. There are only about 47 vBulletin boards larger than TA on the net, and since TA keeps growing eventually I need a new server configuration - but not yet. Although, 3 years ago we never passed 110 users and TA was on a 500mhz machine/512 megs ram, lol. The search you see on TA not many other forums have (I haven't seen one yet) - in terms of having different functionality to search for exact items and to optionally include certain other things. It is not a standard vB setup, it has Mysql 4 fulltext search enabled (no separate keywords index) and it has a copy of the database on another drive. Eventually there will be a new server(s), but right now, it doesn't make sense to double my costs. A lot of the problems are search related - having people search for 'tiesto' (which can take 1 or 2 minutes) and then they keep clicking and end up doing the same search 5 times.

Ban the tiesto fans!

if you want the donations link here it is

http://www.tranceaddict.com/donate.htm

you need paypal for it.

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Retired TA.

I remember swamper posted it in site suggestions...I vaguely remember seeing a paypal buton somewhere from teh main page once, but have never found it since. So I led myself to believe I imagined it the first time around.

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Retired TA.

i'll donate as soon as i get some money in my bank account....TA has given me so much and so much help with problems in life i'd be willing to donate.
Swamper, how much would a new server be to keep us up to speed for while?

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