lletin Dedicated Hosting Specifications Questions..

[VidER]

Hi All,

I will be moving my vBulletin forums to a new dedicated server soon. I have been looking around for a suitable server specs, and I would like to ask you the following questions:

1- If I have the option to maximize one of the following only: the Processor, The Memory, or The Hard Disk. Which one should I go for?

2- Are there any certain settings that I can change in my server environment to get maximum performance for my forums?

3- Do you recommend a certain provider for dedicated servers? Which? And Why?

The goal is to maximize the performance of my 500 Online users vBulletin forums.

Waiting for your answers.

Thanks All.

VidER

[IronMountain]

Hi All,

I will be moving my vBulletin forums to a new dedicated server soon. I have been looking around for a suitable server specs, and I would like to ask you the following questions:

1- If I have the option to maximize one of the following only: the Processor, The Memory, or The Hard Disk. Which one should I go for?

It really does depend on how many clients you have on your site and what they are doing. In order of priority and on a very general basis: RAM, CPU, Hard Disk.


2- Are there any certain settings that I can change in my server environment to get maximum performance for my forums?

Based upon 500 users online, caching and clustering should yield high benefits. In addition, a php accelerator will lower your load. We have a client with 500-1000 users online at any time and they use Memcache, eAccelerator, clustering and SCSI RAID and their site is quite snappy no matter how many users are on.