auro Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Hi everyone! Currently I have a forum site based on php/mysql on a dedicated server. It is working worthless at present. Can you please tell me what I equipment would i need to be able to host more than 2000 concurrent users online on my site? I will be indebted to the person who helps... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 It would depend on how efficient the code is. It could take anywhere between a fairly weak server to 10 servers in a cluster. How many users are on it at a time now, and how many resources are used? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auro Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 Thanks for replying corbin. Currently my site gets nearly 200-300 users online but works most of the time worthless. I have optimised the code to work very efficiently. Each of my pages execute nearly 10-20 queries. (I have tried to optimise the page as much I could) The current database is 2.0 ghz CPU 1.0 ghz RAM 100 mbps Uplink connection The average load is between 5-10% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mchl Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 Did you also optimise database structure and queries? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auro Posted November 7, 2008 Author Share Posted November 7, 2008 I have optimised the Database and the PHP code too.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted November 7, 2008 Share Posted November 7, 2008 What kind of CPU? Single core? Dual core? Quad? How good of RAM? Also, what are the loads for CPU/RAM. Also, how frequent is disk I/O? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awpti Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I've yet to find a piece of OSS forum Software that can handle that many users online at once. A heavily cache-based one might work, but then you get post-update delays. I don't know of any that are heavily cache based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted November 8, 2008 Share Posted November 8, 2008 I've seen a modified version of vBulletin with searching disabled handle fairly well with a thousand users, but yeah, forums don't usually scale very well that high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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