What's the most users you've seen online?

[sebastian406]

I was wondering the most users you've ever seen online at one time on a vBulletin forum.

If you post a number of users, state the server (shared, dedicated, or multiple dedicated servers).

Most users ever online was 4030 on November 12th, 2002 at 03:53 PM. (Personal computer running off dedicated connection).

[tgillespie]

And thats running vB2 or 3? Thats probably the record and I seriously doubt it was just a regular personal computer. A single p4 would even crap with 4000 users.

[Steve Machol]

What was your cookie timeout setting when this was recorded?

[sebastian406]

It's vb 2.2.9. Not mine, so I'm not sure about the cookie timeout. I assume it's the default.

[Steve Machol]

I wouldn't make that assumption. I've seen many forums set the cookie timeout to ridiculously high amounts.

[TheForumHost.com]

And thats running vB2 or 3? Thats probably the record and I seriously doubt it was just a regular personal computer. A single p4 would even crap with 4000 users.

a dedicated server only hosting this one site on a P4 with atleast 2gb of ram and a large swap could handle 4000 users no problem. now maybe if it had a lot of hacks pulling 100 queries per request would be a different story. But a out of the box (so to speak) vB 2.x would not have any issues with that.

[SaintDog]

Honestly, a single P4 would not carry 4,000 users online at one time replying, posting, viewing, editing, and so forth, it would slow down or "crap out" one; take your pick :). There is a reason for seperating the Web Server from the MySQL server and this is one of the reasons; not only that but to reduce the load and displace it between the 2 servers instead of the single.

If you would like to allow such to be conducted on one server, feel free to try, but I would hate to be a member of your board or a guest when the pages timeout, take 1-10 minutes to load, or back to the first, do not load at all :).

[starbucks]

The largest amount of SA Goons online at once was 2103 on Jun 30, 2003. Wow!

Thats from the SomethingAWful Forums, where is that place, must be some forum http://homepage.ntlworld.com/craig.peters1/smileys/monocle.gif

[TheForumHost.com]

Honestly, a single P4 would not carry 4,000 users online at one time replying, posting, viewing, editing, and so forth, it would slow down or "crap out" one; take your pick :). There is a reason for seperating the Web Server from the MySQL server and this is one of the reasons; not only that but to reduce the load and displace it between the 2 servers instead of the single.

If you would like to allow such to be conducted on one server, feel free to try, but I would hate to be a member of your board or a guest when the pages timeout, take 1-10 minutes to load, or back to the first, do not load at all :).

Tribal Wars has had as many as 8000 users on at once. They do it all with two servers a dual P4 for WWW and a XEON for MySQL.

[Erwin]

Tribal Wars has had as many as 8000 users on at once. They do it all with two servers a dual P4 for WWW and a XEON for MySQL.
Really? I thought you would need at least 4 boxes for such traffic. That's is the most I've heard of.

[stanmxl]

I'd imagine you can hold 4000 users on a single P4. Reason being, even with a 15 minute cookie timeout, everyone is not using resources at the same time (it can take you five minutes to reply to or read a post) and it takes only a fraction of a second to generate a page.