Do long threads influence performance on a forum?

[Grover]

I have some threads on my platform that consists of 400+ pages (!)

I was wondering if threads with a very high amount of pages can cause issues with performance? We are on a shared server and our host is complaining and wants to upsell us to a very expensive VPS.

I am now on vB 3.8, but if we switch to Xenforo I would like to know if it's best to split these threads up in smaller threads or that Xenforo handles these kinds of things better anyway compared to other products.

Thanks,

 

[Paul B]

https://xenforo.com/community/threads/your-largest-thread-s.97429/#post-930358

 

[Sim]

From what I've seen (and based on the thread Brogan linked to), performance is not a reason to split threads on XenForo.

The only reason it might be an issue is that it becomes a pain to moderate - but whether this is actually an issue would depend on your site and your moderation style.

I admit that part of the pain of moderating really long threads on my vB sites is the slow loading of multiple pages - which shouldn't really be an issue on XenForo - so most of that moderation pain may well go away (other than the pain of needing to navigate through so many pages to find problem content).

 

[Xon]

XenForo moderation actions such as copying & moving posts between threads are operations which are sensitive to long threads.