Over the last few weeks, we've watched the load on the database server slowly creeping up as more and more people join the site and new plugins begin eating up extra DB queries. There was still plenty of growing room and nobody should have noticed any slowdowns, but everyone who remembers March will remember how painful a slow DB server can be.
To make sure we don't have to go through that again, CC now has 4GB more RAM in the DB box, bringing the total up to 12GB.
If you're going to add capacity, you might as well add capacity for 10,000-15,000 new active members, right?
Lackattack is also working with plugin developers to bring down their resource usage a bit and make their process requests more efficient.
All in all, this essentially means that you should see absolutely no difference from yesterday.
Thankfully it also means that you will see absolutely no difference tomorrow, and hopefully ever.
Thanks to all of you for making CC what it is. Without you, we wouldn't need more power in our servers. Spread the word and lets see how fast we can use up the RAM (in a good way!)
