z64dan on 07 August 2007
Maybe each thread should have a "Digg link" that people can use to link to Digg. On the page the "Digg Link" links to, there would only be a simple layout, with no side links or top links, and just the VGChartz Logo, and of course google ads. The idea would be to make the webpage very small Kilobyte-wise. This would take the strain off of the forum/database server and make loading faster.
I say this idea now, when there is 3,422 guests logged into VGChartz, and the problem is obvious. VGChartz is losing revenue because of the lack of ability to cope with HUGE influxes of visitors. Maybe something like this could be part of a possible solution. A slimmed-down page with just the forum/news post and some ads. That way, there COULD be a ton of guests, but they aren't all downloading entire forum posts (100kb+ probably) and don't put a super strain on the server.
I guess another solution would be spend a ton of money on a faster connection/database/servers.
