OK.  So a certain geek place I hang out recently locked a thread in their forum that had 10K+ posts (mostly links to photos) and several million page views because their board software couldn't handle it anymore (the IT geek in me suspects db issues and no cacheing of that thread).  BH RT is thinking that this needs to be scraped and m

onet

 ized.

Any suggestions for a lightweight piece of software that might handle this in a shared hosting environment?  I've got MySQL and Postgres at my disposal, as well as the usual LAMP tools.  I'd like what amounts to a single thread forum, but WordPress ain't gonna cut it, obviously. Do you think SMF might be the way to go?

If I can m

onet

 ize the fsck out of it, this could be my VPS leverage. 

Thanks for any advice.
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If it is truly a one-thread project then I might suggest a dedicated

PHP

  solution with APC caching. Yes, SMF could cut it and you would do some configuration things to make it so that no new threads could be spawned... nobody could edit it... this sort of thing. But you'd have a whale of software on your hands for a pretty limited application. In fact, you'd be using the back-end of SMF to shut down all the features that makes it so great.

No, I'd scrape and wrap it in a custom app. I'm way better than the SMF folks anyway