On 14.05.2012 22:06, Kagamin wrote:
> I wonder if something like this will be more painful?
> http://www.freewebhostingarea.com/

Or rather a cheap dedicated VPS box.
http://buyvm.net/
15$/year ?

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Dmitry Olshansky

On 5/14/12 1:40 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> On 14.05.2012 22:06, Kagamin wrote:
>> I wonder if something like this will be more painful?
>> http://www.freewebhostingarea.com/
>
> Or rather a cheap dedicated VPS box.
> http://buyvm.net/
> 15$/year ?

The issue seems to be different than sheer computing power, but instead software. Our current hypothesis is that the 168K files in one directory might be the cause for the slowness.

Andrei

On 14-05-2012 21:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 5/14/12 1:40 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
>> On 14.05.2012 22:06, Kagamin wrote:
>>> I wonder if something like this will be more painful?
>>> http://www.freewebhostingarea.com/
>>
>> Or rather a cheap dedicated VPS box.
>> http://buyvm.net/
>> 15$/year ?
>
> The issue seems to be different than sheer computing power, but instead
> software. Our current hypothesis is that the 168K files in one directory
> might be the cause for the slowness.
>
> Andrei

That... does... sound curious.

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- Alex

> They are caused by a significant growth spurt in newsgroup readership
> that occurred in recent times.

a possible solution could include to encourage more people on this newsgroup to learn how to quote. :)

I swear MySQL can handle 168K records at once.

On Monday, 14 May 2012 at 20:23:25 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> I swear MySQL can handle 168K records at once.

 I wonder why it can't just go on a queue that gives you some 30 seconds before timing out and giving you an error message?


 It makes me wonder if distributed computing could come to the rescue. I can volunteer a VM or MySQL server from my computer if need be; If you did that you'd probably distribute out say older archived data (everything from 2011 and before); since if you did that you could distribute it to as many alternate servers as you want. Course if it's all the 2012's present data that is giving us the problem, then it wouldn't help by much :P

 I think I can also set up access to a MySql server on a public website that could be used as well, or get web service for about $1 for a year. It's an option...