Sorry Slash,
Personally just a little too much eye candy for my tastes but the upgrade has things in that are very important to us for running the site.
Once it settles down and we do some performance testing we should get an idea of just how long we can stave off needing to move into the mega server league.
Danny and I spent a while yesterday monitoring the load on the server and it wasn't pretty. We're already using a multi processor server so the next step puts us into the hardware category of a really serious e-commerce or big corporation site. That's a one off cost- the horrifying numbers come with the backbone/bandwidth needed which gets paid monthly.
However, that's our problem not yours - just do us a favour though and get people to buy a badge
Regards from the Towers
Rob Lloyd
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