Quote Originally Posted by Fire$torm View Post
I think Slicker did an update to the apps based on that survey he had posted on the Collatz forums. Hence the reason for shutting down the server.
It also does nightly backups, but that shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Every few weeks I export the results and re-optimize the database tables as MySQL pretty much sucks as as soon as it grows to a size greater than the physical RAM. (If it has to reside in RAM, how then to me it isn't a real database. A real database should be able to be 10-50 times the size of physical RAM and still run OK. Oracle and SQL Server can both do that. MySQL doesn't even come close - at least not if you more than 3 concurrent users.)