I own a server hosting two vbulletin forums (1GB database, 10K members each) and one thing I can say right now: inferno vbshout consumes more than 90% of system resources (cpu and SQL usage)... that is one *badly* written script. Once I disable shoutbox on one of my forums, server load drops by 40-50% depending on the time of a day... This is pure crazyness - I wonder if I can put a html frame with a chat room in an external IRC session there with usernames being somehow transfered - it would release a lot of system resources... :|
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