"Turn your forum on and off"

[fta2k]

We're running vbulletin 3.68

my question:

Can we give prmissions to a usergroup to turn the forum on and off without admin CP access?

in other words we don't want to give to much access to the things that will crash the forum
but, we want them to be able to turn it on and off at peak load hours on the servere...

any help will be much appreciated...

[SEOvB]

There is an option that will shut your forum off when the server load reaches a certain point, will that suit your needs?

[fta2k]

Well I was hoping to give the siteops powers to do this... but I will take that suggestion as
well if you would be so Kind...

[Lynne]

vboptions > server settings ? *NIX server load limit
vBulletin can read the overall load of the server on certain *NIX setups (including Linux).

This allows vBulletin to determine the load on the server and processor, and to turn away further users if the load becomes too high.

If you do not want to use this option, set it to 0.
A typical level would be 5.00 for a reasonable warning level.


As for giving permissions to users in another group to turn the site on and off, there is no function to do this. You would probably have to write a modification to do this.