essential vbulletin maintainance tasks?
 

What sort of tasks should i be doing each month or even weekly?

I know there is some maintainance things you can do, but how essential are they..

what is essential, what isnt, when should i be doing it..

also.... who has Gzip enabled??? is it reccomended. will it save alot of bandwidth?

1. Backup Home Directory.
2. Prune inactive users, old threads, etc.
3. Check the mod / admin logs for suspicious activity and prune them.
4. Run a repair / optimize on the database (easiest to turn off the board first).

I forget where I found these, but I keep a wiki with these and a few other monthly tasks listed.

I also do daily local backups of the db.

I have gzip on, why not?

Running a repair/optimise on the database is not necessary and really shouldn't be run unless you need to.

If you have mod_gzip (Apache 1.x) or mod_deflate (Apache 2.x) installed, do not enabled GZIP compression inside vBulletin's Admin CP - this leads to "double processing". If you don't however, you should enable it and set the compression level to 1, any more will waste CPU cycles.

thanks for the replied..

what does Prune mean???

and how can i find out if i need gzip on or not?

Please enable public phpinfo() in the Admin CP and provide a link to your board.

"Prune" means to delete old or unwanted items. We have a politics forum in which people argue all day, usually totally meaningless stuff. To lower db size I would routinely prune (delete) threads older than 30 days.

I kept hoping vb would institute some form of offline archiving, but that may never happen.

Anyway, if you prune like this then you must optimize tables to regain the space.

I too would like to know how PHP info will tell me if I need gzip on. I don't see anything in the manual about 'public php info'. But even if I did, I'm sure you don't want to have to look at everyone's boards?

Is this relevant?
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip,deflate
_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]gzip,deflate
_ENV["HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING"]gzip,deflate

The only essential thing you really need to do is to make regular backups, in case something goes wrong with your site.

It displays information about PHP and how it is being run. If you are concerned about the security (you shouldn't be), PM me the URL.