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Namesniper
Mon 25th Dec '06, 10:38am
Hello,

Can anyone please tell me whether if such a forum based on vBulletin can be handled by such a hardware ?


Useful parameters are:
* number of guest and number of registered users logged in per day
500
* number of users logged in simultaneously within 15 minute period during peak hours
150-230
* Whether your current forum is currently reaching the limits of your current hardware.
It seems yes..
* A more detailed list of your hardware.
P4 2.8 Ghz 2 GB RAM SATA HDD 80 GB
* If you are running a Linux-based server, whether your Server Load Average hits 5 or higher and stays there for longer than 5 minutes every day.
Periodicaly and basicly its because the RAM is getting rull and then SWAP is maxing out,there where the server load start rising very fast and can reach as high as 50

* whether your forum is photo- and media-heavy or more of a discussion forum, etc.

More of a discussion forum but there is thread with celeb pics which is well indexed in search engines and i see a lot of visitors to that thread in particular.
SSSlippy
Tue 26th Dec '06, 6:11pm
vbulletin can very much handle all of this. I participate in one forum where I also do some other things for it. Average users is 1k at a time 400-500 users 500 guests give or take. It has some forums devoted to art work and alot of discussion. I believe its currently using a duel core unit with 2gb of ram and a 80gb hd. I dont have exact stats for the server but it handles fine.
feldon23
Tue 26th Dec '06, 6:43pm
The original poster's question was about whether his server could handle the load described.

It's Christmas-New Year's holiday which is not the best time to try to get answers to these questions.

Perhaps he/she should e-mail sales@vbulletin.com.
SSSlippy
Tue 26th Dec '06, 6:48pm
The original poster's question was about whether his server could handle the load described.

It's Christmas-New Year's holiday which is not the best time to try to get answers to these questions.

Perhaps he/she should e-mail sales@vbulletin.com.

I was giving him a comparible example of a current experience. His current server can easily handle vb. There is also alot of things you can do to even reduce the server load more. Proper configs for vbulletin etc...