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I'm looking for a top class programmer or a well organized company to take on a very challenging task or re-doing my busy social networking site.

I had a site built by programmers I found on a freelance website like this one however while the site seemed OK by the look of it, it was badly programmed. It's patched together by often unrelated pieces making it increasingly difficult to update with new features, but what's worse – it uses absolutely terrible database management that kills the server every time.

Simply put, the scripts were not built with future in mind. I'm an excellent internet marketer so the site grew huge and continues growing, but as it grows, it puts an increasing load on processor.

For example forum counts are completely badly. Right now the count is being done on forumposts (table name) so as more and more posts are made, each time someone loads a page, it goes down the entire list of 70k+ records. This is terrible. It worked fine form the beginning, but the server is gonna get killed with each new post made to a point that it won't be able to bear it anymore.

Similarly, when a new thread is started and becomes popular so it gets many replies that spread over a number of pages (multipage thread) posts of an entire thread are loaded, even though you only need 50 to display a page. Again, terrible database management that loads too much data, instead of just pulling data needed to display the page.

I'm not even going to mention member management. The database stores access information of all members so if I need to ban an abusive member, it goes through the database all absolutely all IP addresses to look up those with reference to the member in question.

And it only gets worse. I spent way too much money on fixing and each fix proves to be a major pain in the arse and causes other problems so I eventually made a decision to have the site redone – this time have it redone right. It would be better in a long run to invest into a complete overhaul, rather than keep fixing a site that has a badly programmed backbone.

Here's a thing – the site is completely custom coded in PHP with MySQL databases and get thousands of visitors every day (it's on a dedicated Linux server). The features, admin area, forums – all of the features are well thought of as I have designed it myself, just the programming is really badly done. So I will need it redone from scratch and at the same time retain current data – I need all members, all forums, all private messages, etc just whole backend that powers the site to be redone.

Obviously, it will require restructuring of the database and whole new scripts, but I trust there is a skilled programmer who will know the best way to use existing data and transfer them over so they will work with new, properly programmed site that will be ready for unlimited growth.

Once again, I'm looking for someone highly skilled to take care of it, preferably someone who has sufficient experience working with high traffic sites and able to program scripts and database management so it doesn't kill server and doesn't go through tens of thousands of records in the database to display small sample of data on a page. If you think you have the balls and ability to embark on a challenging task, send me a PM. I will not respond if you merely place a bid but don't send a PM. Have 3 (three) samples of your best work ready. Don't send me massive cut and paste lists with your portfolio. I'm not gonna read that, I'll just ban you to save myself form more headache.

Cheers ;)

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$100 USD på 10 dager
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