FAQ: STATUS And AVAILIABILITY Of The FORUMS

[TCO]

Markos are there any technical solutions (software) to put 1000+ users on the forums? (i.e. if money were not an issue)

[TCO]

Originally posted by MarkG
you mean in terms of forum software? there is nothing better than vbulletin at this price

Of course, but what's the next step up?

[Gramphos]

Can I find the archived posts somewhere? Or are they out of the picture at the movement?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by GP
Markos are there any technical solutions (software) to put 1000+ users on the forums? (i.e. if money were not an issue)

yes, we would hire someone to make vbulletin support postgres or even better(since money would not be an issue) oracle

[aeturneus]

from what has been done on the [H]ard|OCP vbulletin forums, which handle around 800 users during peak hours and have over 30,000 registered users, I would suggest a few things:

1. Disable e-mail notification of replies
2. Daily archive obsolete posts
3. Limit the number of smilies to 5-6
4. Make the PM boxes smaller, if necessary disable pm's ocasionally in times of high load.
5. Take the forum offline for about an hour every day and clean it up...

Hardocp has a paid technician to do this for them every day, so I don't know how possible this is for apoly... only thing I know is, Hardocp has handled fast growth and maintained quality and speed.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Gramphos
Can I find the archived posts somewhere? Or are they out of the picture at the movement?

for now they are not accessible from anywhere



aeturneus, a link?

[Gramphos]

Originally posted by MarkG
for now they are not accessible from anywhere

Do you plan to make then assessable later (along with the old archive?)

And in that case: Are you going to make it fixed HTML, not generated with fixed colors and posts/page to avoid DB-use?

[aeturneus]

https://www.hardforums.com

[TCO]

Originally posted by MarkG
yes, we would hire someone to make vbulletin support postgres or even better(since money would not be an issue) oracle

I mean the "next step", Markos

"vbulletin support postgres" is cheaper than oracle? How much does each cost and how many users do they support.

Are there any 1000+ forums? And how do they operate?

[Ramo]

How much of a performance increase does the server get from disabling the "ratings?"

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Ramo
How much of a performance increase does the server get from disabling the "ratings?"

you mean thread ratings? we havent disabled them

[Robert]

or even better(since money would not be an issue) oracle

Or....... even better: Lotus Domino !

[Gramphos]

Have you archived more posts today?

IIRC there were 30000 posts in the Civ3-general yesterday, but now it only is 23000 posts.

[Cube]

I mostly agree with atearneus.

<B>1. Disable e-mail notification of replies</B>

This would work, I personaly don't like them, and I'm sure most people don't like them either. I turn them off anyway

2. Daily archive obsolete posts

I don't know about daily, it seems like to much sometimes I don't come here for two days

3. Limit the number of smilies to 5-6

I don't think so, I use more than five smilies sometimes

I really don't like it when you close OT since it's the only forum I go to , now that I've stopped playing computer games. So please try to keep OT open.

[DarkCloud]

Oh well at least the forums are working now That is good