Originally Posted by Kremmen
I'd say that the day lost in restoring from backup would be vastly less of a pain than the lack of FT functionality so far.
However, if you think that's a real risk, why not just patch 4.3.10 with the performance fix, if you don't want to risk taking onboard all the other changes in any CVS snapshot?
I do wonder though whether it even mattered. Okay, there were some bugs in PHP 4.3.9. Could they actually be triggered by vbulletin? If so, were any particular circumstances required? The only reports I've seen have been very superficial -- PHP had bugs, vbulletin uses PHP, therefore upgrade PHP -- and may have been an overreaction in the first place. It's amazing to me that vbulletin are being so useless in an area they should know intimately.
Oh trust me, it mattered. 6 of the VB sites I host were defaced. And several PHPbb sites were defaced. By defaced I mean vapourized. GONE. Emptied. All that was left was a single index.html telling you the news.
As for the "why not just restore the database", do you have even the slightest clue how large a SQL database is for a site the size of Flyertalk?
That isn't something you can restore in an hour, let alone a day...