Could use advice

[Brian Scherzer]

Our vBulletin site is getting database errors and slow access at various times. We often have between 450-850 members online simultaneously, have a database that holds over 1 million posts, and have a...

[Brian Scherzer]

For over a month now I do not seem to be able to change anything for our users. I have been unable to change a person from "registered" to "banned", or change a person's user name,...

[Brian Scherzer]

I wish that I understood the technical aspects of the "whys" better than I do. Nonetheless, I had run into a serious bandwidth problem on both of my vbulletin sites. Use had jumped significantly...

[Brian Scherzer]

This is a fairly general question, but one that would help me understand what I am doing when I set a "load limit". Does this refer only to the load that my vb site is causing, or does it measure...

[Brian Scherzer]

Steve.........No, no hacks there. It may really just be me not understanding what I need to do. I am still a bit confused about the banning options setting that asks the admin to decide whether to allow...

[Brian Scherzer]

Steve.........The board has been set to require unique email addresses for some time now. For whatever reason, this has not prevented the person from re-registering using the banned email address and...

[Brian Scherzer]

I am having a problem in keeping someone banned from my forum. I put their email address in the "banned email addresses" section and had previously clicked "yes" on the "keep...

[Brian Scherzer]

OK......That worked! Thanks for the tip! Maybe it's time to abandon AOL and use something like Earthlink.

[Brian Scherzer]

Cary.......I cleaned out all cookies and the same screen appeared when I went back to unstick a thread (after logging in). Yes, I use AOL.

Something new to add. I now can no longer vote...

[Brian Scherzer]

I have a rather strange situation. I own the board, and have made myself one of three admins. I can do everything except "stick" or "unstick" threads. However, both of the other admins...

[Brian Scherzer]

Even though I moved to a different provider last week, I received an email today from Vbulletinhosting.com that they are discontinuing service effective August 15th. Cutting to the chase, they are going...

[Brian Scherzer]

CharlesM.........I just received an email from Brian Welch at vbulletinhosting.com that they will be discontinuing all service as of August 15th. In other words, they are going out of business. End of...

[Brian Scherzer]

Not wanting to sound paranoid, but since I'm relatively new here, I just want folks to know that "Brian" is NOT me, but is Brian Welch at vbh! My final comment on this whole thing with vbh,...

[Brian Scherzer]

Leo.......Get the heck away from there! For 3 months I spent weekends and holidays nervously checking my site to make sure that it was still up. This is my first weekend away from vbh and on my new provider's...

[Brian Scherzer]

As you can see from the small number of posts, I'm not one who should be considered an expert on websites, vbulletin, or discussion software. However, I have run a large discussion site for three years...

[Brian Scherzer]

At the same time that maybe as many as 20 people were complaining about web busy screens, I was doing fine and have not seen one. I have had very few complaints since I set the sessions limits to "0"....

[Brian Scherzer]

Some people are still reporting getting constant "web busy" screens, while others are never getting them. Server load says it is currently at 0.31! At the time the last person reported the web...

[Brian Scherzer]

I just moved my site from VBH and when I went to their website, all that was left was a screen saying that they were not taking new customers and to go to Perfect Presence, which is the same owner's ...

[Brian Scherzer]

I just went in and changed the simultaneous users to "0". The load limit was already set to "0". The key point is that only certain people have the problem (constantly), while the...