Hello there, 1. I have a large forum with 3000 unique per day. vBulletin 4.0.3 installed 2. The forum has high traffic and high usage. 3. I have few other regular websites as well which are not highly database intensive. 4. I am on cloud server 8gb ram and quad core at the moment but my sites are slow because of high traffic. Can I have your offers to manage my websites? Don't reply if you really can't handle big website/forums. Waiting for reply
What kind of a budget do you have? The server you're on would have to be pretty costly at the moment but I'm not sure how 3k uniques a day is slowing things down. I've seen certain sites on shared hosting and vps' that do fine with thousands of visitors per day. Maybe you should look for a service that can optimize your server rather than host you where you may experience the same lag.
as njoker said. I dont see how 3k uniques would slow that down if it is just a forum. Elaborate on why and how it slows down that much of a server please
I run a set of 5 vbulletin and photopost sites and have over 10,000 unique daily hits between them. I run a quad core server with 8gb of ram and my load rarely spikes above 0.5. I would suggest installing xcache and vboptimise (search on vbulletin.org for "vboptimise"), also ensure your css is stored as a file. Make sure avatars, and attachments are stored in a filesystem not the database. Check your php.ini (or my.cnf) settings and ensure they are optimised for mysql intensive sites. Check your php handler and if it's DSO or CGI consider using fCGI (fast cgi) or suphp (you might need to recompile apache for this). Turn off compression within vbulletin as your server is probably set to do this by default when it parses the php, go through all your vbulletin options and make sure none of the "leave this disabled for optimal performance" type things are disabled etc.
Hi, The reason for slow speeds might be cloud hosting as you share Disk I/O with others. A dedicated server with similar configuration will be cheaper and faster. Ishan