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We've just migrated a forum with 1.8M posts from vbulletin 4 to xenforo. We're hosting on azure and while the beta-phase seemed okay, we only now hit the wall after the search index was fully rebuild. Currently we run our managed mysql on B1ms instance (1vcpu burstable, 2GiB memory, 640 max iops) and with our traffic amounts it works just fine, except using search causes the database to OOM and drop. I know the instance is pretty low-end so it's no wonder it chokes with the mysql fulltext...

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