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RSS Feed Strain on Forums

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I had a user request that we make RSS feeds available for our forums at my largest community. I’m interested in doing this, but I’ve never done it before. I was just curious what, if any, repercussions there might be for making an RSS feed available on a large site with thousands of members and hundreds of thousands of posts? Such as strain on the database, server, etc… anything. There may be none, but not knowing… I wanted to be safe.

Any thoughts?

This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005 at 12:01 pm and is filed under Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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2 Responses to “RSS Feed Strain on Forums”

  1. chrispian says:
    August 23rd, 2005 at 8:41 pm

    It’s cheaper on your bandwidth than them actually visiting your site! But, the end result is usually them visiting your site ;)

    I would think that if the server can handle the load of lots of users logged in and posting then it should be able to handle serving up an RSS feed too.

  2. Patrick says:
    August 23rd, 2005 at 10:23 pm

    Hmm… thanks for posting.

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