Although one would think that as your site made the transition from small to medium to large, you would also make the transition in hosting platform.

You could start with Shared hosting, move to virtual private, and finally to a dedicated server. Then there is the option of single core, quad core and more depending on your budget and the ability to monetize the site.

It was almost comical looking at the logs this morning seeing some of the url’s individuals where typing in, to see the Search 404 results.

There maybe better alternatives out there, maybe we will hear about them?

Also, the module only works best when the urls can be broken down into suitable terms, so using node id’s, or badly redirecting from another platform that has less well formed urls can cause loads of searches for no real gain.

Search404 is a good module, but I would not use it for larger sites – the ones it will be most useful for.

It’s here, hope it’s helpful: Custom 404 and 403 error pages in Drupal.

I forgot to add that core search does not work too well for multiple pages of comments. The forums on the example site have some topics with over 100 pages of comments – linking to the first page is next to useless when the comment you are searching for could be on any one of the 100 odd pages.