Hello fellow perl worshipers. I have followed the helpful advise of many here, and created a script that works well. The good news is that I have 6000 unique users per month now, and the script has been working fine for three months. The bad news? is that the number of users is doubling every month or so. My question is, other than using my timer system that only allows use every 30 seconds from any one IP, and flock, and strict, and trimming down the script, I'm getting concerned for the future. My question, finally, is this - would it help to split my script into one main one that handles the form input and checks it for errors/abuse, and two or three other new scripts that handle other parts of the task, using require otherscript.pl for example ? Does splitting the tasks out (there are three main ones) help to make it keep working while it grows ? I don't have any sql or use many modules, its basically take in text input, arrange it, and output gif images that equate to the text. (Its an English-Mayan Glyph translator online at http://www.event12.com) However, I have some upgrades and will be using GD and GD::Text in the new version, instead of feeding up images, and I will change from using an alphabet of 26 characters to using an 84 character syllabary instead, so the GD will probably add some to the mix. Help please ? Suggestions are most welcome and usually implemented.

In reply to Good News/Bad ? by JimDuyer

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