Tabulas has been dying a slow death. The mySQL database server (1.3Ghz Celeron w/ 512MB RAM) cannot handle the large amount of data (~1.8GB) as well as the amount of traffic that Tabulas requires. Unfortunately, Tabulas has been crashing a lot because of this.

One of the tables got corrupted today, so I took the mySQL database down for some table repairs - it took about 20 minutes, but I think the database is good to go for at least another week.

A lot of the problems are the result of my lack of experience in proper database design - my latest work on the next generation of Tabulas will use a whole new database schema (which will consequently mean that Tabulas will have to be down for about a day whenever I make the switch) which will *hopefully* speed things up.

But eventually I'll need to throw hardware at this problem. So is a new database server looming in Tabulas' horizon? I sure hope so.

Just a general update, I guess, to let everyone know that Tabulas isn't dead. I've been working on backend stuff (rewriting the core libraries). Once I get all this backend stuff hacked out, I can start going through on the new featureset.