Acronym Expansion and Server Load

Hi,

I've got Acronym Expansion setup with 'REPLACE acronyms as expanded text' on my site with 30,000 users, 500,000 posts on a relatively high spec dedicated server...Dual Xeon E5420 Quad, 8GB DDR2 PC5300, 15,000RPM SCSI etc

Everything seems to work OK if I keep the number of acronym replacements fairly low, i.e. less than a few hundred.

However, if I create a 1,000+ plus then forum pages takes noticeably longer to load. My site is based on wildlife and the environment, so I could easily do with adding 20,000+ replacements to my Drupal species reference pages, but it soon sends the server load up dramatically and the forum starts to really slow down

Is there a better way of setting things up than what I'm doing at the moment? Would it be best for me to have some sort of cache setup? move the replacements into a separate file from the config? choose a particular setting in acronym expansion or anything else in VBSEO or vBulletin? Increase something on my server?

Any tips would be really appreciated as this is a killer tool to have in the VBSEO arsenal and I'd really like to make the most of using it

Thanks

Stu

Hello ,

If you add too many replacements then it will hurt your server as acnoryms are replaced on the fly. Therefor you should keep your replacement numbers on low volume. If you want a better solution you may want to look for a custom modification that will accomplish your request.

Thanks for the info.

Do you know of any mods that are available at the moment, or does VBSEO do these sort of custom mods? If so, could you let me know how much it would be to get something like this built for my forum.

Stu

GAL can work for you.