I'll see if we can help you a little. I don't fully understand all the geeky stuff but will try to help. We're running PHP/MySQL on the back end. There are three dedicated servers to FT on a co-lo where we have half a rack. The three servers are ProLiant DL360 G3's with processor upgrades, 2 gb of memory and each has 2 - 72.8gb Ultra hard drives. One of them runs as a member db and the other two as web servers splitting the load balancing. There's more answers to your questions and i'll try and have the guys answer them.

I think you'll undertand we have invested in the hardware for FT, it just needs a few bugs in our optimization to be worked out. We found one in the load balancing today and it helps a little. We have some bad memory we're swapping out ans a few other things. In the next few days, you'll be enjoying what we really had planned for you all.

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