Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-29461586-20140127141401/@comment-25075055-20140204180645

"I would actually be against this. True, we are a massive wiki here on Wikia, and have a great community and a lot of content going up all the time, but so do a lot of other wikis. Where would you draw the line?"If I was Wikia, I would take snapshots at the beginning of each year of the WAM score and the top 5 wiki's of each grouping could be considered as candidates to be moved to dedicated servers. Even if the site was on a dedicated server, I'm pretty sure that if Wikia planned it all out properly, you'd still get all the features you need.

I did a time count of how long the WikiActivty page takes to load on a few wiki's: on this wiki alone, it took 6 seconds to even connect and load the site. All other wiki's were 3 seconds or less, even really active wiki's like Community Central. Either code optimisations need to be done by Wikia's Technical Staff to make it load quicker on big wiki's or the sites with slower loading should be moved to separate servers.

This wiki could be sharing server resources with a bunch of other wiki's: it's not fair to have one massive wiki taking up most of the server and making the other sites suffer as a result. :/