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a major bit of performance testing has just been carried out, and given me one set of numbers. I now have to do some re-configuration of the servers, and do the test again to get a another set of numbers.

Hopefully, the second test will give significantly different - and better - results. If that proves to be the case, then the re-configuration will need to be made permanent, and these forums will perform better* on Sunday than they did when the Reading/Leeds announcement was made.

(*actually, they'll perform better on Sunday anyway, as some other changes have already been made, and some of the website functionality will be disabled to benefit the forums).

If the second test does prove to be better, then the forums will have to be taken off-line for a number of hours while the reconfiguration is made. The plan is to do the reconfiguration (if it happens) in the very early hours of Saturday morning.

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Nope - those sorts of things (turning off some of the forum features) will be done as well, but I'll also be turning off bits of the main website, such as the line-ups and rumours.

I've just completed the second test, and unfortunately things don't run better but run slightly worse with the changed setup, so that idea goes in the bin. :unsure:

There is another bit of reconfiguration that's just been identified, which will certainly improve things a little more - how much I don't know at this point, but it'll definitely give an improvement. Those changes should be made in the next hour or so, and then another test will be done to try and get some idea of how much it's improved things (it might be the case that any improvement is too little to see - but it *will* be an improvement, guaranteed).

I'm also thinking about how I might be able to re-configure the chatroom in such a way that it'll give a bit more ooomph to the forums - I can probably move it onto one of the other servers and still keep it integrated with the forums.

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