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I'm but a lowly nigger but would it be feasible to keep what you've got in one domain, and have the other archives on virtualized subdomains with comparatively limited specs?
I'd be willing to bet that most people only need the most recent stuff because they're looking for something from only a few days ago, like generals or something they forgot to bookmark or seeing the conclusion to a thread from the other night. They'll demand speed and ease of use. But people searching back half a decade ago are probably doing something more specific/special and would tolerate a slower search, and there would be fewer of them as well both the further you go back and separated by user knowledge of stuff having been likely to have been on fireden (recent, well indexed, representative of modern 4chan culture and board state, useful and up to date information available between the shitposts) or on archive.moe (old, potentially lost, if it's been this long who cares anymore, relics of history, ghosts and shadows of memes long dead)