Yes, search engine traffic is important... but site uptime more so! I'm on a VPS so disabling aname is likely not an option.

I'm turning off spider friendly URLs, the calendar function, zlib compression, user moods, active text. Changing search to MySQL Full-text. # of unread posts is already off.

Any other thoughts/comments are welcome, thanks!

prune old topics ( if you can )

that is the #1 hit on a system
#2 believe it or not is Private Messages

Actually, you can on a VPS, since you have full root, your "virtual container" can still have it disabled (in fact, I'm on a VPS as well).

I agree Gizmo, just offering things I had done once to reduce load on my servers here.

Dunny

The company's a little leery about losing old content to pruning... If I create an "Archive" section on the forum and move old content there, will that also help decrease CPU usage?