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Originally posted by colpanic
Don't waste your time writing another PHP script.. it's not gonna work. If you REALLY want to fix search, either use this:
http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html
Or, hire me! I'll make it work for 10k 
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Search functions in VB has been streamlined for some time. Sites as big as GFY with a large base of tech savvy users should also make other provisions to protect themselves against DOS attacks on more resource intensive operations.
This isn't really a problem with VB, PHP/MySQL or even the size of GFY's archive... for the amount of money the place brings in, it could be easily resolved within a few days (with the right tech people of course).
But the first thing to do, as Smokey suggeted, would be to bring the scripts up to date security wise (and no, this doesn't mean go to VB3.x)
If it were me and the archive was as large as GFY's... I might make sure that searching & general forum use were completely independent on the backend.
That way if some fucker wants to attack the board via search... fine.. but you're only going to cripple the search feature during your attack - not the whole board.
Many other combinations of software an and networking things could be done as well. But whatever.