Dedicated server grinding to a halt

[ccasale]

Hello,

We purchased vbulletin about 6 weeks ago and started using it on our dedicated linux box - we have the box colocated and bandwidth is not an issue (right now). The server consists of a PIII 500Mhz and 1GB of RAM. It says that the users online is: Users Online Now: 324 and also There are currently 75 members and 249 guests surfing the boards. If we look at the top command we see that the CPU average is averaging mid 90%. This is a site that used to run a message board before - we can easily expect it to get up to 1000 users - we need to know what type of server we should build that will be most cost effective & allow us to grow with it. Is there anything we can do to speed the computer up. If we are looking to move to a more powerful computer - what would you recommend.

Thanks!

-Carl Casale

[The Prohacker]

For 1000 concurrent users, you'd prolly need to split up the db server and the web server, into two boxes. Both running full scsi system, and a tweaked setup. The web server only running Apache and PHP4, and the db Server only running MySql. Still it will be quite a load.....

Have as much ram as possible in both machines, for that many users, you might consider seeking a private programmer to script an oracle backend, but for the software alone will be expensive....



You should also upgrade to 2.0.3, it fixes a security hole in earlier versions...