My iPhoto Library is huge - over 800GB

Hello, I'm running Yosemite on a new Mac mini (late 2014) with iPhoto 9.6. My single iPhoto Library file is over 800GB at this point.
I would love some best practices on how to manage this file as it is getting big and I'm afraid the file will get corrupted - it's also hard to manage backups (I have redundant backups on Time Machine and external HDD. I already had to restore the file once from a backup.
Could you please provide some options on:
1) how to parse out the existing iPhoto Library to smaller sizes (i.e. one file per year?)
2) should I upgrade to Aperture or Lightroom? Would this help with anything?
3) I assume I should start a new iPhoto Library starting in 2015?
I'm sure this is an FAQ - please point me to some good posts, if available. Thanks in advance.

it's also hard to manage backups (I have redundant backups on Time Machine and external HDD. I already had to restore the file once from a backup.
The Time Machine backups should be automatic, if you include the drive with your iPhoto in your regular Time Machine backup.  The second backup to an external drive would best be done with a cloning application that can do incremental backups like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper, so only the first backup would take a long time.
Could you please provide some options on:
1) how to parse out the existing iPhoto Library to smaller sizes (i.e. one file per year?)
iPhoto Library Manager could do that - the full, paid version. But splitting your library would make your library less useful, since you can no longer search all photos at once. Having to switch between libraries is tedious.
2) should I upgrade to Aperture or Lightroom? Would this help with anything?
I don't have much experience with Lightroom. Upgrading to aAperture is useful, if you want advanced editing options and more  ways to search a large library based on metadata tags. An Aperture library is easier to navigate, if you take the time to explore Aperture's advanced features. Aperture supports to manage huge libraries distributed across several drives. But upgrading to a professional application would only be necessary, if there are things that you would want to do in iPhoto, that iPhoto cannot do. Aperture can open your iPhoto library without any need to migrate, and iPhoto can open the Aperture library. Only problem, apple announced that neither Aperture nor iPhoto will be further developed. Apple to replace Aperture and iPhoto with Photos for OS X early next year | 9to5Mac
3) I assume I should start a new iPhoto Library starting in 2015?
See my answer to your first question.

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    The other way that I have been able to relibaly access and edit an iPhoto library on another mac was by using Virtual Network Computing (VNC). Essentially it provides the user the ability to see and controll another computer on the network from their machine. It does work and is alot faster than the first method but the downsides are that the host computer cannot be used at the same time and VNC software does not resize the desktop when, for example, accessing a 20" screen from a 12" laptop. This means that you have to resize the iPhoto window to fit on the smaller screen.
    For the host computer (server) I used Real VNC and for the network client I used Chicken of the VNC.
    The software works well and is usefull to access emails on the computer in the office from the living room. I have to say that I have stopped using these methods as they both tend to hogg the network and other users in the family are stuck for long periods of time trying to load a web page.
    Hope this helps,
    Dan
    iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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