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Update: I installed a caching system for PHP Bytecode (I don't expect anyone to know what that means). Forum go faster.

Two licenses.

It's okay you get a tax certificate.

No, nothing "migrates" to MariaDB. MariaDB is literally a drop in for MySQL. It's API compatible. It's purpose is so you can use MySQL applications without having to deal with Oracle. SMF is a MySQL application. I'm running it on MariaDB.

Like, there's no difference between MariaDB and MySQL as far as anything running in PHP is concerned. It all just uses the mysqli API.

SMF is ancient. The first unofficial release was in 2003.

Do you not know what MariaDB is? It's a dropin fork of MySQL to free it from Oracle...

Because this software was made before Hadoop was invented.

Here's the deal: As far as decent forum software goes, there's not a lot that's actively developed anymore. SMF kinda sucks, but it kinda sucks the least. One of the problems it has, is scaling issues - meaning the more people using it, the slower it gets. Until they update it to be usable with the newest version of PHP (the programming language it's made in) it's pretty taxing on a server. All I can do to mitigate the speed is throw more money at it and give us more RAM/CPU speed.

I would love to be using PHP 7's interpreter or HHVM, but SMF is not PHP7 ready yet, so we're stuck on 5.6's slower single-core bullshit.

It's MariaDB. The problem isn't the database itself though, it's SMF's non-scaling queries. For another $12 a month or so I could put another 3GB in this and just deal with it though.

It's hosted on a quad core xeon with 3GB of RAM on dual NIC 1 TB uplinks. SMF has some database scaling issues and they either need to be found and fixed or I need more RAM.

If you want better hosting you gotta pay me.