What would you recommend?

[Getox]

I was thinking of getting a better server then what i have...1.3GH 512MB RAM and a new 60GB HD(cos old one got damaged when something happened to the its power supply)

so what kinda server stuff would you recommend?

[Zachery]

P4 2.6+
SCSI Over SATA over EIDE
at least 1GB of ram
:)

[Moparx]

it really depends on what your needs are and the amount of money you are willing to spend

[Getox]

was thinking Webmaster1 from Liquidweb?

[turkforum]

Liquidweb 2thumbsUP

[Getox]

Well when i start making more money/m ill get the Webmaster1 with some changes to it ;)

[eva2000]

totally, depends on server load and forum activity

here's a few things to note:

1. vB user online concurrently is based on default 15 min or 900 second cookie time out and is different from mysql concurrent connections

2. vB currently only can use mysql as a backend but later there will be ports to sybase and postgresql way after vB 3.x has been publicly released

3. MySQL regardless of forum software, provided it has the right hardware and mysql, php and apache configuration is good for theoretically 1000 - 1500 mysql concurrent connections (latter figure with the mysql rpm binaries) based on single dual cpu server setup (excluding dual, quad p4 xeons which could handle more)

4. this means you can have 1000 vB users online displayed but they actually can use 200 - 700 concurrent mysql max connections since vB shows those 1000 vB users over 15 mins / 900s and not the exact same second, you can have any combination

i.e.

300 members + 700 guests = 1000 vb users online past 15 min, with only 300 - 500 mysql concurrent connections in use

or

500 members + 500 guests = 1000 vb users online past 15min, with 500 - 800 mysql concurrent connections in use

both examples show 1,000 vb users online past 15mins but the latter example could place more load on the server due to more mysql concurrent connection usage

5. hardware isn't the only aspect which determines vB performance, you have to have apache, php and mysql configured optimally - left unoptimised especially mysql's configuration, then even the most powerful hardware will not perform well

6. if you set your vB timeout cookie higher than default 15 mins, you will show more vB users online - so set timeout cookie in vB admin panel to 30 mins, then the vB user online display will show users on in the past 30 mins thereby inflating the vB user online display - generally the higher the cookie timeout, the higher the vB users online to mysql concurrent connections ratio