VGChartz is a slow website. That's a fact that every member has come to accept, and we've also come to expect that the site is even slower on certain days of the week, or when certain big releases happen, and a huge number of people come onto the website and push traffic levels through the roof.
Well here's my idea of how to fix the issue, which possibly wouldn't cost much in terms of implementation, and
due to the less stress on servers would save money over time.
My idea is..... torrenting. Well, sort of. Think of it like this: people can download a little client which runs in the
background on their computer, it only takes a small amount of their downstream/upstream.
These clients store some of the less-frequently-updated content; such as boxart, the forum header, the layout graphics, etc. They also contain the previous
weeks sales data.
The server would still be used for storing user accounts, hot-topic forum posts, news articles, and the most-recent week's sales data.
Threads that haven't been posted in for more then say, three weeks, could be closed and also uploaded to the torrent like system.
Well, what do you guys think? I'm interested in everybodies comments, but I especially want to hear what some
of the big cheese's have to say about my idea.
