Optimization

  1. Archiving Threads -
  2. Asynchronous Javascript - Speeding up your website by loading javascript asynchronously after the rest of the page renders.
  3. Converting MyISAM to InnoDB - InnoDB provides superior performance for large databases, but only recent versions support fulltext.
  4. Issues with Exceptionally Large Sites - Tips on changes you may need to make for good performace when you have many thousands of categories.
  5. Server Load High / MySQL death - Emergency measures to deal with extreme loads.