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Actually, at this point, traffic is not a problem. The connection is nicely
handling the bandwidth and serving the pages doesn't even make a blip on the
CPU.

Morons who think they are going to rip a tiny little PIC enthusiast site DO
cause bandwidth problems if they don't realize that each page links to
another and there is over 2GB of content on the site now...
...But the server pretty much stops that on its own. The larger problem
there is getting people to edit the pages and keep them organized and clear.

The damn search engine about kills the thing however...
...I'm looking at another server upgrade for a faster processor and even
more memory again to handle that. Something about searching 2 Gigs of
content seems to slow the box down a bit for some strange reason. I'll
eventually have to setup a second server just to handle the searches.

If it wasn't for *nix boxes being so totally unreliable, I'd look for a
search engine to put on a old box...
...But I've never seen a *nix box that didn't get hacked eventually and I
don't have time to be a security expert on top of everything else. I'll buy
another license for NT eventually, or maybe try the XP server version.

Anyway, people adding pages is NOT going to cause me any headache. HD space
is not even close to being impacted. Just serving the pages is a drop in the
bucket. If I have to, I'll exclude member content from the search engine to
keep it from swamping the box.

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