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Is there a specific definition that vbulletin.org uses for what exactly a big board is? Big-Boards.com says 500,000+ posts but I'm not sure if that is the standard definition.
We have about 5K members and 1.5mil posts and I don't really feel like we're a "big board", more medium sized when I compare our site to others that have 1,000+ concurrent users and 9MIL+ posts
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Not even the most sophisticated server according to todays standards. The server is now around 1.5 years old: 2xOpteron246/4G/4x36gigRaid10/240Gb (for backup)
I am running (well doing tech. admin for) a board that each day has periods with over 2.000 concurrent users online. Still running it on a single machine (dedicated ofcourse), although it starts to hit the limits of a single machine. As i can still run it on a single machine, i consider it to be just a medium sized board.
We at 3D Realms got swamped when we released the DNF Teaser Trailer in December. We shattered our record for concurrent users then, at the peak, we had 3,145 on at the same time.
The server was hurting - but it didn't break. We have over half a million posts, and I think something like 12,000 users (although probably about 4 of those are "active").
Our forums are on their own box - we segregated out the www.3drealms.com part of our online presence to another box earlier in 2007.
I always considered our board somewhat large, but not "uber" large.
Personally, I consider the board size based on the number of servers used in the web cluster. IMO, a board who uses 2 servers (one web and one db) is an average sized board, not big. Once you start managing a vBulletin board that runs exclusively on 6 servers or more, yes... you can say you have something going on.
IMO, a board who uses 2 servers (one web and one db) is an average sized board, not big. Once you start managing a vBulletin board that runs exclusively on 6 servers or more, yes... you can say you have something going on.
Well, it's a pity, our board which is just a wee bit from entering top 100 at big-boards and will hit 9mln posts in a few days is a medium board then Seriously, if you don't count the slave backup/search server and the ad server, we still run on 2 servers, one web and one db. It's a different challenge, but challenge nevertheless.
Well, it's a pity, our board which is just a wee bit from entering top 100 at big-boards and will hit 9mln posts in a few days is a medium board then Seriously, if you don't count the slave backup/search server and the ad server, we still run on 2 servers, one web and one db. It's a different challenge, but challenge nevertheless.
We are 33 at Big-boards and running on 3 servers. I could shut down one of the web servers and it would run fine, I'm thinking about retasking it. The DB server is hooked up to a piece of an EMC SAN unit though...
Slightly OT - the Big-boards admin is MIA, isn't he? As far as I know, new sites haven't been added to that index in a long time, so those rankings aren't accurate. My site's at just under a million posts now, and I've been in the "queue" on there for months with no response.
My database server was disk bound, it had 4 15k SAS drives in a RAID 10. I was going to install 2 drives mirrored for the operating system and then 6 drives in a Raid 10.
My host offered a 128 Gig segment on their SAN for about the same monthly payment.