fliks - 9:06 pm on Nov 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

I've never been a very active member or lurker on WebmasterWorld, as I only cared about the pubcons for the last 2+ years and my third supporters donation will definitely be the last, but I must really say, that I'm impressed by the amateurish level that webmasterworld.com shows again and again.

Brett behaves, like his webmasterworld.com is in such a unique position, that every advice he gets does not fit for his size. This heavy ignorance always surprised me - the last time, when I talked to him and his head-tech during in vegas a few days ago.

There is simply no need to run a site as big and profitable as WebmasterWorld from a single box. A cluster is just dirt-cheap and would be able to cater all your needs, including sitesearch, etc. pp and it could scale WebmasterWorld to a multiple of it's current size.

Why do you stress the existence of very few members generating more than 1k pv / day if you could give them a special status (the same that google, msn, etc. get) and ban all the others? why no professional firewall, why don't you move over to a real forum software that is known to work for many other "big boards", where each got more than 10k posts and millions of pageviews a day? WebmasterWorld and it's problems are not unique, but you tend to always pick the worst solution.