Hi, sorry for the late reply. That server certainly looks like it will be able to handle it. If you find that the forum is taking too much traffic, Activestate has a paid solution called "PerlEx", which basically does the same thing as mod_perl with Apache web server installations. That is, it caches the scripts into memory so that they are only parsed and loaded from disk on the initial request. However, I wouldn't go down that route unless you are expecting very heavy usage, which doesn't seem to be the case here.

Gossamer Forum is optimized primarily for MySQL, so, although there may be a few tweaks here and there, it's doubtful that you could get any significant performance increase through MySQL's settings. (Although there is a setting to increase the amount of memory that MySQL uses, which could improve performance, depending on the size of your forum).

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Jason Rhinelander
Gossamer Threads
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