Hey all,
I have one small vbulletin board running already, and am contemplating starting up another for a friend, and because of my experience with my first small board, I'm concerned about resource usage. Perhaps someone can give some guidance...
On my "small" board, which is running 2.0.0 (yeah yeah, I know, upgrade it already), there are maybe 20 or 30 active users, with a small number of postings per month. The highest month we've had so far only saw 250 posts.
During that month, my account cpu usage hit 21,000 cpu seconds, which is 6 seconds over my 15,000 cpu second allotment. At $3.75 per extra 1000 seconds, this starts to add up quickly, especially considering that there are so few users on my board.
Now, this potential new board for my friend has an anticipated usage of about 10x my current small board, maybe 200 active users and 2000 posts a month. If things scale in a linear fashion, then we're talking what, 150,000 cpu cycles and something like $450+ cpu in overage charge. OUCH! For only 200 users!
So... am I doing my math wrong? Is my webhosting company charging too much? Am I expecting too much?
Or am I doing somthing wrong on my small board that's causing an undue burdon on the cpu? (will upgrading from 2.0 to 2.2 use less cpu?)
Ok, I know... lots of questions.. but I truly do value any and all advice on this!
jeff
I have one small vbulletin board running already, and am contemplating starting up another for a friend, and because of my experience with my first small board, I'm concerned about resource usage. Perhaps someone can give some guidance...
On my "small" board, which is running 2.0.0 (yeah yeah, I know, upgrade it already), there are maybe 20 or 30 active users, with a small number of postings per month. The highest month we've had so far only saw 250 posts.
During that month, my account cpu usage hit 21,000 cpu seconds, which is 6 seconds over my 15,000 cpu second allotment. At $3.75 per extra 1000 seconds, this starts to add up quickly, especially considering that there are so few users on my board.
Now, this potential new board for my friend has an anticipated usage of about 10x my current small board, maybe 200 active users and 2000 posts a month. If things scale in a linear fashion, then we're talking what, 150,000 cpu cycles and something like $450+ cpu in overage charge. OUCH! For only 200 users!
So... am I doing my math wrong? Is my webhosting company charging too much? Am I expecting too much?
Or am I doing somthing wrong on my small board that's causing an undue burdon on the cpu? (will upgrading from 2.0 to 2.2 use less cpu?)
Ok, I know... lots of questions.. but I truly do value any and all advice on this!
jeff
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