How Fast is Fast enough?

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I am about to dump my shared host. They run a backup every night that takes out my forum for about two hours. Actually it's not entirely down, but it might as well be. It takes my vBA page about a minute to load during those backup periods.

I was thinking about getting a dedicated server, and was researching some potential hosts. I don't have a huge forum it's about 3500 members, and we get about 10% visiting on any given day, maybe 25 at a time, plus the spider spooks. It was doing about 30GB in traffic per month, more or less, most of those are image files for a hobby forum. It's dropped some now that vB supports thumbnails. I also have Photopost galleries.

Anyway, I found this web host and was looking at their forum, and some guys are posting there about vBulletin being a resource hog. I don't have any details on the types of forums they are running, but the server specs look a lot better than anything I was thinking of renting just to get my feet wet.

1) Here's the thread:

http://sls.support.superb.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=436&highlight=mysql&sid=3ce4436107c0ced31277fe4548ef358b

Is there any truth to this?

2) I would appreciate anyone's comments, or suggestions (PM) if necessary concerning a dedicated or shared host that can handle a medium sized vBadvanced forum, any tips about hardware or places to avoid.

Regards,

Matt

[Zachery]

:rolleyes: vB a resource hog, right, thats why it takes 55 some servers to run gaia on phpbb :)


However they are correct about one thing and one thing alone, an unoptmized mysql apache and php setup will ruin any server.

I've got 6-8 vBulletin boards (from differnt people) on my own server and it flys around, granted i would guess there is only maybe 50~ people on the whole server at any time the load is rarely above 1. My biggest forum does get up to 20~ users peak and there are still no load issues.

Ive got a 2.8ghz P4 with 1GB of ram. and it runs vBulletin fine. vBulletin does consume abit more memory than phpbb or IPB, but is oh so much more less cpu intensive. Also there is a rather huge feature comapirison when you look at phpBB and vB.

phpBB is an ok solution for a small to medium size board, but once the board starts getting "big" there are usualy some real resource issues.


Now what moduals do you have running on your vBa homepage, there are a few stock ones that would run up the load abit, such as ammount of new posts, and a few other things.

Avoid 1&1 at ALL COSTS. :)

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Now what moduals do you have running on your vBa homepage, there are a few stock ones that would run up the load abit, such as ammount of new posts, and a few other things.
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Thanks for your reply

It's really quite ok during the day, but from midnight to about 2AM they run their backup and the server load goes up into the "4" range, and even the forum itself (non vBa) gets slow and admincp becomes very difficult to load.


Well, the killer one seemed to be the moderation module, so I got rid of that, and the ones I have left are:

Welcome
paypal
Latest posts
News(just the archive)
links (html only template)

Custom stuff:
recent journals block
a news block (html only - generated by another script and cached)
a recent uploads block (just added. it was slow before)
recent photoposts comments (I cache this so it shouldn't be a delay, but it was slow before)

Regards,

Matt