forum size an issue?

[Rosey]

Just a hypothetical here.

Is there a point at which the forum cannot handle how many people are on and the amount of users and topics etc? I've done everything to reduce how many queries and all that stuff before with no change in performance.

I'm going around and around with the host and i think the problem is on their end. Granted, the forum we have is big but is that the issue?


These are the stats:

We have 5680 registered users
Our users have posted a total of 146242 articles within 14708 topics

Online at one time, probably 50

[Helter]

That is alot of users for any forum. Integramod does use alot of sql resources due to the amount of mods, but with that many users, your bottleneck is probably cpu usage, unless your hosted on a dedicated server. What are your current server specs?

[Rosey]

i'm not sure. You mean what kind of specs does the host have? We don't have a dedicated server. All those people are not active. I'm in favor of pruning but then you lose their posts (i think) and that's defeating the purpose.


I know it's a lot of members but usually they register, ask their question and then leave again. At the most I think i've seen 40ish or so on..max 50. Even if you have that many registered, i don't see how it would be a problem (in my limited knowledge)

We had the site moved temporarily on another server and it worked just fine...super fast and everything.

sql queries are about 60

Now how is a dedicated server different than regular hosting?

[Helter]

sorry, I thought you had 5680 active members. Your post count shouldnt cause you page load probs unless you have a few bots indexing your entire site. If you are having bot issues, check your robots.txt and be sure they are not attempting to index areas they do not belong.

It should look something like this

[code]Disallow]

If your forum files are in your web root, instead of a folder such as "forum" you will have additional files and folders. You may also add these to robots.txt

Disallow: /images
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /_vti_bin
....etc

as for the differences...

standard shared hosting - your resouces are extremely limited. Ive heard of these types of servers hosting 200+ clients on one machine

VPS = Virtual Private Server - You are guaranteed a certain percent of the servers total resources.... ram, cpu, etc..
still not much, but adequate to run most applications

Dedidcated = All yours. 100% of serverresouces are at your disposal

[Rosey]

yup that's what my robot.txt looks like and i have all the files in a forum folder.

I still think it's on their end. it's not just me having issues, it's a lot of people..actually everyone. It's stupid.