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It also does word stemming so "search" matches against searches, searching, searched, searcher, searchers, etc. Plus it can do accent matching so characters such as à, è, ì, ò, ù can match against a, e, i o, u.

I have to disagree on a few points. We were at a billion roughly a billion sites 10 years ago and its about 1.4 billion now. Hosting companies and data centers continue to grow. Every 3 seconds, a new site goes online. The tools for creating independent websites are better than ever. Many of...

Both Red Hat (AlmaLinux or Rocky) and Ubuntu have very long support windows, so you're good with either from that point of view. I've found Red Hat variants to be a bit better from the point of view of stability, and a larger amount of hosting support, but frankly you'll not go wrong with either...

What are you basing this on? Contabo scores higher than Hetzner, Vultr, and Digital Ocean at https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/screener

The first and last are not valid expressions.

Yes. alter table tablename engine=innodb; This will prevent the crash, but will not fix the underlying issue with too many bots.

You can also convert the sessions table into an Innodb table. XF works fine with it that way, and it doesn't have any performance issues.

Did you not receive my reply yesterday?

You can add Digital Ocean to this list. I have set them up with a large forum.

The majority of my clients don't ask for one, for what it's worth. It depends on what you want. Hobbyist forums usually don't bother, but business related forums sometimes do depending on the data being dealt with. There's also GDPR requirements to consider if the client is in the EU, and what...

If you're interested in a service for this, I can help. Send a DM. :-)

Wow that was a fast update. Thank you.

With this latest version, 2.10.0, I've had to turn off the incoming email handler for each category because it's causing error logs to fill with this: TypeError: XF\SubContainer\AbstractSubContainer::__construct(): Argument #1 ($parent) must be of type XF\Container, XF\Pub\App given, called in...

MySQL/MariaDB hasn't stored databases in ibdata1 for many years, with file_per_table=on being the default. Innodb databases are stored in sub-directories, and each table with data and indexes is stored in individual .ibd files. ibdata1 is used now solely for remaining metadata and buffers...