Recent content by MySiteGuy

Let them in, then put them on global ignore. They'll lose interest when they think everyone is giving them the silent treatment.

Edit - never mind, you 2nd post shows you tried what I already suggested.

I can, if you're interested.

From the folks at Litespeed technologies: Subject: Security update for lsquic and all LiteSpeed Server products! Please make sure to update to the latest version. This is a security fix for a vulnerability that can be relatively easily exploited. If you cannot upgrade your server at this...

This is a decade+ old myth that needs to die. Both Matt Cutts (Google's search liaison before 2015) and, more recently, John Mueller (current), have said in no uncertain terms that text to HTML ratio are not ranking factors. SEO companies (and tools) will present this non-issue to clients...

Maybe you could use the suggestion forum and getting enough upvotes for it to merit consideration. From my own experience importing several hundred vBulletin forums, almost no one asks for me to import calendar data into one of the third party calendar add-ons.

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You're grasping at straws. Companies of all sizes continue to operate when an employee with stock leaves.

Thank you @tenis ! I appreciate the kind review. :-)

You're generally not going to see larger hosting companies increase connections for a shared hosting platform. Every time the number of connections increases, so does the maximum memory requirements of MySQL, and this can lead to one site to monopolizing server resources.

My first destination when encountering permissions issues with a user is the permission analyzer in the admin panel. 95% of the time it will tell you exactly which set of permissions (user, user group or forum) is causing the unwanted behavior.

I recommend the Spaminator add-ons from snogssite.com.

Thank you, Gerry! I appreciate your trusting me to help your sites. :-)

You only thought you did, and failed to address the cached tags column in the xf_thread table.

I have several large forums on one of my dedicated servers, each larger than the forum mentioned. They get away with about 4GB of RAM combined, and the rest resides on disk. RAM requirements have not grown over time. Even with smaller forums on a small VPS with tight memory constraints have...