*Unread* posts v.s. *New* posts

[pmak0]

> But what about database size John? I'm picturing my
> database expanding to the size of 10GB

Try executing these MySQL commands on your vBulletin database to get an upper...

[pmak0]

BTW, even in mwForum, the "unread posts" feature could be disabled (or maxUnreadDays can be made smaller) in case the forum is just too large for the hardware to be able to track unread posts....

[pmak0]

> vBulletin scaled forums (approximate):
> 1,000,000 (Difference of 100x)
> 300,000 threads/topics (difference of 100x)
> 3,000,000 posts (difference of 100x)
>...

[pmak0]

> 3,810 threads is really nothing. If you goto forums with
> some 10,000,000 threads and another 50,000,000
> posts plus multiply it by 10,000 users and can say
> performance...

[pmak0]

Well, http://www.animelyrics.com/forum/ (running mwForum) has 3810 topics, and it tracks whether a user has read a post. It has a MySQL table called topicReadTimes which consists of (userId, topicId,...

[pmak0]

Does vBulletin distinguish between the concept of a Unread post and a New post?

Unread post: A post that I have not looked at.

New post: A post that was posted since my last...

[pmak0]

avatar.php has the following code:

header("Content-type: image/gif");

It always sends content-type image/gif, even if the avatar image is JPG or PNG!
...

[pmak0]

I think that vBulletin has nice features, with respect to being able to mark up one's text when posting in the board, and also their e-mail features (e.g. receive e-mail when someone posts to a thread...

[pmak0]

No, it wasn't empty... I just edited it afterwards trying to get rid of it.

[pmak0]

Ok, I just tried playing around with the animeglobe.com/ubb/ forum.

I didn't actually edit the template; what I did was I downloaded the HTML page, added a BASE HREF tag, removed the ENCTYPE...

[pmak0]

> hmm since i'm at steve's forum as well, i suppose it's your lynx browser

Either that, or there is a syntax error in the HTML code of the default vBulletin templates, which most browsers...

[pmak0]

This error occurs for posting a new thread.

I've tried it both on g17.com (GeekVillage.com forums) and animeglobe.com/ubb.

[pmak0]

When I try to post to a vBulletin forum using the lynx web browser, I get the error message "No thread specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the webmaster".

Does...

[pmak0]

So, how many dynamic page views, e.g. from vBulletin, do you think a RaQ4i with 256 MB of RAM could serve per month? What about RaQ4i with 512 MB of RAM?

I could put the static pages on...

[pmak0]

I'm expecting about 2 million page views per month. It would be nice if I could handle 10 million page views per month too (although if I did get that much traffic, I would probably have enough money...

[pmak0]

Does anyone have experience using a RaQ4i to run a database driven website (MySQL with PHP or perl)?

Can you give me an idea of how much load a RaQ4i with 256 MB of RAM could handle, assuming...