Did you know? Database tip

It is a few years back, my client had a website which was very well visited.
We speak of thousands of visitors each day.

And probably many bots. Combine that with a pretty bad coded theme and a lot of links to removed pages that did not got redirected.. and you have yourselve a 404 machine 😉

What does that mean? Hundreds of 404 registrations in the database each day (or even hour) got the database so big, it was going to 500MB’s in one week! Within 3-4 weeks the database started slowing down and giving trouble loading.

And thats the reason I set database logging to 30 days instead of 60.

Although I have never seen it happen in the past years anymore.

Where thats setting lives: Sucurity > Global Settings > Logging