Drupal vs vB
 

I was wondering, which set-up gives you the most bang for your buck.

Drupal.org has just upgraded their server which they say will be able to deliver: 30 million pages a month and 50,000 unique authenticated users per month. However they have spent 11k on their set-up!!

How well does vB fare? What kind of server set-up would you need to serve 30 million pages a month on vB? Anyone have any comparable set-ups they can tell us about?

While my big-board isn't quite up to 30M page impressions a month yet (!) it would be interesting to know which one gives you better mileage when it comes to high traffic sites :cool:

I think it's kind of hard to compare, because vB allows you to run a cache daemon on a separate server, as well as have multiple database servers (master & slaves) to spread the load.

But it's a good question. I hope someone who is more knowledgeable will chime in.

I agree that it is weird to compare the two as they seem somewhat different.

My forum (by itself) served almost 15 million page views in the last 30 days, and we just upgraded to a two PHP server (dual clovertown, 4GB RAM each), one mysql (dual clovertown, 4GB RAM, RAID 10 15k scsi) config. we didn't buy the hardware outright, however, so costs can't be compared directly.

I don't know what the capacity of this server setup is, but I would think there would be a lot of room to grow on it. 30 million a month? dunno... guess we'll see.

arn

Hey I visit http://macrumors.com :D

Thanks for the info (you too Analogpoint!), please do keep us updated on how you get on. I also posted this topic on vb.com and George has posted some very helpful info - which will be of interest to anyone who runs a m a s s i v e forum!

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=248575

frankly, 11k is nothing when you start talking about infrastructure.

a load balancer and a top of the line pix is 10k