I have been observing a Discourse forum with a huge amount of traffic, which is causing slowness. There is a tradition, or so they say, of resetting the forum and starting over. The reasoning is that as the forum grows in data and traffic, it requires more resources like RAM, CPU, and disk, signific…

Throwing away your community’s history doesn’t really make sense unless unless whatever people said last year doesn’t matter at all. Slack deletes stuff that’s some months old by default, I think. How big is your database? Is your cost issue about Disk space? There are cheaper ways to get more of i…

That’s my point this instance not use proxy or caching maybe are using an droplet /cloud priced in 9€ daily so I wonder myself if the fact them are using cloud and not a VPS KVM or Bare Metal is the reason to many outages these days [image] pfaffman: Are you having performance issues? No! I’…

If you don’t have any data about the server ram, cpu, and size of the database it’s silly to speculate what the problem could be. It could be a configuration issue. [image] eisammy: maybe are using an droplet /cloud priced in 9€ daily If you mean they are using 2gb server for 9 euro a month …

You’re right nevermind :sweat_smile:

Can too much data cause slowness and need a reset?

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eisammy (Sammy) December 12, 2025, 8:06pm 5

You’re right nevermind

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Can too much data cause slowness and need a reset?

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