chatbox/shoutbox what kind is better ?

[katie hunter]

Hi,

I am seeing all these chatboxes and shoutboxes for vb 3.7 series but which one would not cause server issues when installed? i tried couple of them when i was on vb 3.6.8 but most of them eats a lot of server resources causing hight load or even spike.

[Ziki]

Well chatbox and shoutbox is pretty much the same and not to cause too much load,I suggest you do not pick an AJAX one.

[katie hunter]

Hi =]

ya i know, i just wanted to know one that doesn't eat too many resources. Can u link me to one of the chatbox/shoutbox that you think will not eat up too many resources on a 300k+ registered member forum

[soundbarrierpro]

Hi =]

ya i know, i just wanted to know one that doesn't eat too many resources. Can u link me to one of the chatbox/shoutbox that you think will not eat up too many resources on a 300k+ registered member forum

I use GBOS. I don't like buttons or extra options. This is a very basic shoutbox that types out the characters one by one after you press enter. Sort of looks like an old DOS type command line internet chat.

[NemoTech]

Wondering the same... MGC Chatbox EVO gave me white pages. vbShout is no longer supported. GBOS looks a little scary/unfriendly, reminds me of a MS Dos Prompt.

[katie hunter]

so there is no actual good shoutbox yet =/ something like what they have on facebook would be nice =]

[bluesoul]

I'm using Dream Chatbox on 3.7.4 and my server load has been minimal, but I'm also running a very light member base thus far too.

[marecek]

I own a server hosting two vbulletin forums (1GB database, 10K members each) and one thing I can say right now: inferno vbshout consumes more than 90% of system resources (cpu and SQL usage)... that is one *badly* written script. Once I disable shoutbox on one of my forums, server load drops by 40-50% depending on the time of a day... This is pure crazyness - I wonder if I can put a html frame with a chat room in an external IRC session there with usernames being somehow transfered - it would release a lot of system resources... :|

[katie hunter]

inferno is terrible, i tried it, even the rpg is terrible in term of eating resources =/

[marecek]

...tell it to users on my forums ;) They love inferno sb for this automatic refresh feature. If I tell them that we need to make a step "back" to "refresh-button" style, they will kill me :(