Server used by Vbulletin.org?

[mike_cruz]

I'm looking to swtich from phpbb to Vbulletin. I have a dedicated server running MySQL and PHPBB and it runs into "too may SQL connections" problem. Number of users range from 20-100.

Can someone tell me if Vbulletin.org runs multiple servers to support load on this site? 700+ users!

Thanks.

[Andreas]

AFAIK, vbulletin.org runs on the same server as vbulletin.com and vbulletin-germany.com too.

My board used to run on one server (Dual Xeon 2.4 Ghz, 4 GB RAM, Non-RAID IDE HDs) which was fine for up to approx. 500-600 concurrent users.

I think if you have 15K SCSI HDs in a RAID setup you could even handle more users on one machine.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by mike_cruz

I'm looking to swtich from phpbb to Vbulletin. I have a dedicated server running MySQL and PHPBB and it runs into "too may SQL connections" problem. Number of users range from 20-100.

This is a MySQL configuration error. By default MySQL only allows a maximum of 100 connections server wide. So if your forum is using it as well as a stats program or web based email, then you can easily and quickly hit the limit. Especially if any of the applications use persistant connections and don't close them when done.

As a vBulletin customer, you are entitled to support including help in optimizing your server for maximum usage of available resources.

Also this server is a Dual Xeon machine with 4 GB of RAM. I think the processors are 2.8 GHZ. I don't really get involved with the hardware though. A couple of our developers maintain the server.

[mike_cruz]

Thank you. Let me check into the MySQL connection issue first as I feel that 100 is too low to be a problem.

Appreciate all the help so far; I'm liking Vbulletin and the folks who run it already.

[Delphiprogrammi]

well,

Correct me if i'm wrong but i belive you can edit this in the file called "my.cnf"

[mysqld]
set-variable = max_connections=500

cheers

[mike_cruz]

Thanks. Let me find out how to edit that configuration. I guess my test now is to see how increasing the number of connections decrease server performance. At some point can my P4 2.4 with 1G ram bog down with users?

Cheers.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

It sure will, the question is how many user it can serve.

We have no knowledge about the server load of phpBB with a given number of users. For an answer to that question i suggest you try at a phpBB support site.

PS Or buy vBulletin ofcourse.