Performance of vB4 on Large Boards

[ShannonA]

Can anyone comment on how vB4 is doing performance-wise versus vB3 on large (1000+ user online simultaneously, 5M+ posts) boards?

Some past upgrades have caused lag increases and concern over that is the biggest thing keeping me from upgrading right now. (Well, that and the fact that it'll probably take 24 hours to do the post table updates that are in the upgrade path.)

[barcena]

My site is not as large at yours and I have been so far with two hostings plus the one I had while first migrated all in the last 15 days, I used to have a nice VPS and moved to yet another with more resources, it wasn't enough and as we speak I'm moving my site to yet another hosting/VPS with more resources and each time the moving is more expensive of course.

At the moment I'm in the process to migrate to yet another hosting because the only option left to me on all the other hostings was to go dedicated and I don't want to do that.

I won't deny that my site had conf problems but now is as fine as it can be, tunned up to the detail and I haven't been able to run vbseo so far, everytime I dare to turn it on the CPU just will go to the roof and the server will crash, we unistalled the vbseo, we'd clean everything and installed it again to no avail, is not software issue but hardware we think at this poing .. and I can tell you my actual VPS is not bad by any means. I hope my new hosting plan will do just fine since it does specialized on vbulletin hosting.

I don't regret the move to vb4 because I like it and has some really nice features but will I knew this before I would of wait another good half year before to go 4; if ain't broken don't fix it, to me it has been a true headache, a pain since the moment I did the migration on late December, Im sure missing my beaufitul and reliable humble 3.8.x, probably you won't have any issues whatsoever but I can say that vb4, let along vb4 and vbseo combined are resource eaters and server intense; I don't know how the guys on share hostings are handling their sites but to me it has become an expensive hobby, Google Adsense is not that good yet, and I don't even have the suite, I just wanted the forum.

That's my experience, it doesn't have to be your's specially if money and technical knowledge are not an issue for you. Good luck.

[cad2go]

I've got about 300 online and a couple of million posts and dare not upgrade. None of my members are crying out for a slower forum with missing features, crap search etc so I've written off the purchase.

One thing I'd advise to to avoid at all costs is the cms - it will kill your server.

I've a smaller board that MAY get the upgrade in a couple of months.