That sort of thing is frequently caused by web crawlers.
How helpful and coherent of you. I've found that the difference between ReCaptcha and StopForumSpam to show ReCaptcha to be rather wanting. I...
You have a webmaster oriented forum. Looking at other stats does suggest a lot of activity however.
Some of it is still in subs-post, and the menu bar is now defined in subs, rather than in the database like it should be. I want to convince the...
No, while Bioboards was still mostly phpbb2, someone forged the pm report function against me, and the mods were both surprised and initially...
Addressing the glass ceiling is not always about forum longevity. Many forums will exist for years at that ceiling, losing a member for every one...
I have actually seen people forge PM reports. It's borderline insane.
Yeah, that was a big one when I queried about converting to vBulletin. Most found it hard to use.
SMF's theme system is simply a mess. 2.0 is actually a step backwards in some ways. It is faster, to be sure, getting faster and scaling better,...
It's not a vBulletin option, it's a webserver option. If your webserver supports .htaccess (any Apache server), you can turn it on by placing this...
Promotion, yes. That would come before breaking the glass ceiling bit. It's never an easy topic. Choosing a webhost would be a short topic but...
FastCGI, opcode cache, memcached, a highly tuned database configuration, InnoDB, and custom-compiled php. And server load is not just about...
A hit in a log analyzer is any file request. So if you have a page with a hundred pictures on it and haven't set an expires header, every time...
Chapter I: Why do you want to start a forum? Alternately, read this chapter or fail. The most important secret behind any successful forum is...
I was speaking about advertising. If you have 1,000 daily unique visitors, you should be able to find $300/month or so worth of advertising....
I had Elliquiy with Acceleratedweb until we were constantly taking up 10-25% of their CPU, with significant time at 99%, a one gig database and...
32-48gb is currently typical for a high-end cost, as it's still somewhat more cost effective than the 64-192gb range, though that will only be for...
This is one of those things that would be most successful if at best men had a technical and/or group social advisory role. I'd happily host such...
3 SMF 2 Drupal 1 bbPress 1 MyBB 2 phpBB Have another PunBB forum planned : )
The AJAX chats on Elliquiy and Blue Moon generate roughly one million php calls and ten million queries per day, along with the overwhelming...
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