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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: kirbster on 26 January 2008, 13:54:06

Title: OOF Search
Post by: kirbster on 26 January 2008, 13:54:06
hi folks...

I found the 30 second restriction on the search facility a bit of a bind.

30 seconds between searches is rough, especially if you make a typo / need to narrow search down etc..

To be fair, the best way I have found of searching is to use google to search the site...so for people..go to http://www.google.co.uk, type in "site:www.omegaowners.com" followed by a space and your search item and you can search to your hearts content without the 30 second limit and it puts the load on google's servers and not OOF's..just a tip.

some examples here :-

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.omegaowners.com+door+card&btnG=Search&meta=
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.omegaowners.com+colour+codes&btnG=Search&meta=
Title: Re: OOF Search
Post by: TheBoy on 26 January 2008, 18:26:38
The 30s restriction is there to protect the forum.  The easiest way to DoS a dynamic website is to ....  :-X
Title: Re: OOF Search
Post by: kirbster on 27 January 2008, 11:49:18
agreed, protect the forum, but also cause multiple posts on the same subject as users get frustrated with waiting 30seconds between searches, which only increases the db size and therefore costs you more money...so  money or  :-X  ;)
Title: Re: OOF Search
Post by: TheBoy on 27 January 2008, 17:11:36
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agreed, protect the forum, but also cause multiple posts on the same subject as users get frustrated with waiting 30seconds between searches, which only increases the db size and therefore costs you more money...so  money or  :-X  ;)
Disk space isn't an issue ;)
Title: Re: OOF Search
Post by: psl on 08 March 2008, 15:45:20
how much space do we have?
Title: Re: OOF Search
Post by: TheBoy on 08 March 2008, 15:54:57
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how much space do we have?
more than enough for the main OOF server, and even more on the images server :y