Hello,
I am considering switching a forum over to VB from UBBThreads. Currently we have the following usage:
25,000 Members
850,000 posts
1,000 registered members logging in per day
10,0000-12,000 total user visits per day
100,000 page views per day
800-900 new posts per day
For those of you running forums similar in size to mine, what is your server setup, and who is your host?
I ask because I am considering changing hosts again, and with that looking to upgrade hardware.
Thanks in advance. :]
The forum usually has 300-400 members online (10 minute history), 800-1000 posts per day and roughly 900k existing posts.
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Sounds like we'll be going with two dual xeon servers with 2gb each.
vBulletin.com is run on a dual xeon machine with 4gb of rams and everything here is configured by hand.
How big is your forum and and what has been the growth rate? A single server is ok, but dual servers are always better :)
Thanks for the reply. Are you guys happy with theplanet? That's actually the host I am considering switching to.
Right now we are running on two servers, 1.3ghz athalons, with 1gb of ram. I am trying to decide if two servers will be necessary, since we will be going to a dual 2.8ghz xeon with 2gb of ram and scsi raid configuration. We could easily up the ram if necessary, if using only one server.
As we sit now, one of our servers is handling mysql exclusively... we're running ok, generally speaking. Presuming that vBulletin is going to be as efficient as UBBThreads (hopefully more so!), it would make sense for us to be able to use just one server, no?
Not opposed to spending money, but am opposed to throwing it away on unnecessary hardware.
Oh, if it's not private information, can I ask what the server specs are for this forum? While we have a smaller forum, it will give me a starting point of what would certainly be sufficient.
This is always hard to say, but you probably want to try avoid having only 512mb ram, and only have IDE hard drives, and having a celeron CPU. I'd go for a dedicated solution that will have a powerfull system that is configured properly. A single CPU might do the trick, by a HT one will make things easier. And 1gb or more ram will help lower the overal resources. If you go with IDE try to get a RAID setup to improve read/write speeds. Perhaps seperate hard drives, one for the os + programs and one for the MySQL and data. And I recommend to store attachments in the file system.
vBulletin.com is hosted with ThePlanet.com, on a dedicated server solution.
Of course, investing more money into a bigger system will always help, but it really depends on how much resources the system requires and what the bottleneck is. There's no use investing in a dual xeon with 4gb ram and scsi hd's on a raid setup with load balancer and a seperate server for the database, if you're not even using 25% of the resources.
This forum has a few threads where big sites are being discussed:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=111239
My site seems to be a similar size to yours: ~2200 daily posts, 300-500 users on forum, 70,000 daily page views, 2,000,000 total posts. I'm hosted on a dual opteron 242 server w/ 2gb ram and 2 80gb IDE drives from servstra.com. We just have mysql on a separate drive on the same server. I wish the drives were something faster than IDE, but oh well.
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