ghost members

[matman55]

i was lookin at the members of the site and i found out that there is 6517 members that havent posted a single post.not even a helo post! My question is does that effect the perfomance of the site(makes it lag)?

 

[r_chez_08]

Dunno about performance, but they probably signed up to see pics.

 

[matman55]

lol,thats what i did and then i got sucked into the fourm!!!
and theres also on like 2,000 active members,i wonder what the criteria for "active" is

 

[crazzywolfie]

i doubt in active members would slow down a forum. i think it is more so the active members that slow it down.

 

[matman55]

i doubt in active members would slow down a forum. i think it is more so the active members that slow it down.

ok for the sake of this site not laggin lets delete all the active members and turn the whole thing over to the inactives!

 

[devino246]

ok for the sake of this site not laggin lets delete all the active members and turn the whole thing over to the inactives!

:facepalm:


This site (and pretty much 90% of other sites) runs off an SQL Database. Information is stored on individual tables in that database. It's then accessed by running an SQL query, which, in the case of one of my sites, looks like this:

$result2 = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM dcomments WHERE ForPost='$postcomment' ORDER BY ID");

Accessing one of my small tables with only 12 entries, the server took only 0.0010 second. Even with a much larger table, it won't be much longer.

So to answer your question, no, all those inactive members won't slow down the site.

 

[matman55]

:facepalm:


This site (and pretty much 90% of other sites) runs off an SQL Database. Information is stored on individual tables in that database. It's then accessed by running an SQL query, which, in the case of one of my sites, looks like this:

$result2 = mysql_query ("SELECT * FROM dcomments WHERE ForPost='$postcomment' ORDER BY ID");

Accessing one of my small tables with only 12 entries, the server took only 0.0010 second. Even with a much larger table, it won't be much longer.

So to answer your question, no, all those inactive members won't slow down the site.

Cool! new information! thanks!

 

[devino246]

No problem.