I made the terrible mistake a few weeks ago of actually moving my vbulletin database over to a RAM Disk. I actually just wanted to see if it made a significant performance improvement, but as it turns out, there was hardly any improvement whatsoever.
The danger with a RAM Disk is that when you reboot, you lose all the data on there. Had I realized that I did not move it back, I would have at least backed up the database. I didn't, though, and here I am back at step 1. The second time around, things do go a little bit more quickly - but I really wanted to focus a little bit more on other things. C'est la vie.
The good thing is that I had moved everything else off out of RAM and onto disc not too long after I had performed a few tests.
On top of that, I'm seeing some new problems with my php caching mechanism that I'm not very happy about.
Update on the Update Interaction
