Is this true for Vbulletin???
 

I've just been told that if you have alot of forums on your board, it can cause severe lag on your site. Is this true??? This person is stating someone told them this that is a Vbulletin user themselves, and well, I can't find ANY documentation on it.. so is this true???

Alot of forums on your board?
Like alot of catagorys :confused:
lag on a forum is mainly your hosting depending on what type of host you have.

Yup.. well I guess she means forums... we have alot of forums for different things, since we are based on alot of pregnancy, parenting ways, personal forums, etc.....

But thats what she said! That since we have so many Vbulletin doesnt like it or whtever and it will lag...

We've had lagging issues, but they are on my hosts side and the host even knows it and fixed this issue tonight! (supposedly)

If we are talking about the board in your signature then its not the number of forums,its the number of hacks.
Not many left on vb.org which you are not 'utilizing' :p

OH man... it's my hacks?? :( I NEED all of them tho... lol

But seriously it has been our server and they know it's their fault. Tonight, our board is zooming, so it can't be that bad I have those hacks, right?? lol

I thought of that one, but was going to ask
How many mods do you have installed on your board?
Could you list some?

I find that certain hacks slow my site more than others. For instance the shoutbox, just about slowed my site to a crawl, once I got rid of that and one other thing I was fine.

I hope you can find out the problem..

Eeeeeek.... off the top of my head

Vbplaza
shoutbox (obviously)
zoints (altho I dont know much yet)
Vb image host
awards
custom pages
global announcements
limited guest viewing
members who have read a thread
miserable users
On Usergroup Change
PMs Sender
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads
Time/Days spent on board
User Created Styles
user Countdown
Websites who have referred today
Welcome thread
Mood

.... that's almost all of them from my product manager.. still have a few misc. ones!! LOL

Yeah... I think someone else had this problem too. My members love the shoutbox.. :( lol

Vbplaza - Yes
shoutbox (obviously) - Yes
zoints (altho I dont know much yet) - Not really
Vb image host - Not really
awards - No
custom pages - Sort of..
global announcements - No
limited guest viewing - No
members who have read a thread - Sort of
miserable users - Not really
On Usergroup Change -?
PMs Sender - Not really
Separate Sticky and Normal Threads - No
Time/Days spent on board - Maybe..
User Created Styles- Don't know
user Countdown - A little
Websites who have referred today - Not really
Welcome thread - Not really
Mood - I think it does

My opinions :)

But yea if you have a low quality host, It probablly would

I thought I had a good host.. they started getting really bad these past 3 weeks or so... they told me my issue is fixed and it was a scripting problem and they fixed it ?? so who knows!

1) Duplicate your database - not a bad idea anyway - gives you a back up and/or a realistic test bed.

2) Copy all your vbulletin files to another directory

3) Go into the admincp - fix any path issues.

4) Remove all hacks.

5) Compare performance.

... then you know.