UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming MySQL and Server Configuration Forum slow, VPS isn't helpful, advice? options?

I'm still working on it... I removed some things I liked having, such as some links generated by an rss feed from another of our sites and my Amazon affiliates box at the bottom of the page. I also deleted lots of redundant and large files from the server.

As it has done over the last few years, the speed has resolved down to 5-8 seconds of blank page and then everything loads. I never know if it's something I did, something they did or just the random tides of the internet. Sigh!

I will continue to work on optimizing MySQL and my database, and post what happens.

Is there any way to archive old posts so that they are still searchable, but don't figure in the daily default activities of the site's interaction with the database?