vb.org Archive - View Single Post - Disabling "Who's Online" Feature

LanciaStratos · #1 05-03-2013, 06:32 PM

An extremely high-traffic event will be taking place on my website and vB 3.8 forum later this month, and I want to ensure the site remains online and stable. One thing I'd like to do is completely disable the "Who's Online" functionality, as it appears to write to the database on every member's page view.

I have found the "Who's Online Enabled" setting in the Admin CP, but it doesn't appear to actually do anything. I'm guessing that's not normal behavior...?

Anyways, I don't want to just hide the "Who's Online" list, I want to be able to temporarily turn the feature off completely to reduce the load on my database server. Will that setting accomplish that, or do I need to make some changes to the software with a plugin or custom coding?

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