How is this vBulletin 5.x site running so fast??

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  1. Brandon

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    It was posted in the VB section that vb.com had hard drive issues, and was not running on SSD's.

    A new started forum , would run pretty quick, and the demo board I had up, was lightning quick for me on a low end dedicated server I keep around. Only l5420's.

    5.0.2 made a ton of headway and is a lot quicker.

    but yeah, that forum is quick quick quick.
     
  3. CM30

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    I'd assume it's some of the following:

    1. The forum is medium sized rather than huge.

    2. It's on a pretty good dedicated server (or really well configured shared host).

    3. They've used a bunch of caches and things.

    4. Third party add ons

    Probably all four.
     
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    I have yet to see/hear of any 3rd party add-ons for VB5 that claim to increase performance.
     
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    They could also be serving pages as files for guests.
     
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    I am registered as a member, and it is just as quick.
     
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    From server headers on that forum, i think they're running Squid cache front end proxy.

    Code:
    Date	Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:46:48 GMT
    Via	1.0 squid1.kelbymediagroup.com (squid)
    X-Cache-Lookup	MISS from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com:80
    Server	Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
    Vary	Accept-Encoding
    X-Cache	MISS from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com
    Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Cache-Control	no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
    Connection	keep-alive
    Content-Encoding	gzip
    Content-Length	12076
    X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge,chrome=1
    
    CSS file

    Code:
    Cache-Control:max-age=31536000
    Connection:keep-alive
    Content-Encoding:gzip
    Content-Length:53
    Content-Type:text/css
    Date:Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:54:41 GMT
    Server:Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
    Vary:Accept-Encoding
    Via:1.0 squid1.kelbymediagroup.com (squid)
    X-Cache:MISS from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com
    X-Cache-Lookup:HIT from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com:80
    
    That and small vB5 forums do load quickly - my own private test vB5 forums are lightning fast :D

    vBulletin.com server setup/hardware isn't optimal (I don't have any actual access so nothing i can do about it). But that is only part why vB5 isn't any where as fast as it should be.
     
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  8. ragtek

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    good coders replacing the original code ?:D *scnr*
    EPIC!
     
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    I used to replace VB code all the time to increase performance. So, that is not out of the realm of possibility. Also, the hosting company is http://esnet.com/ .. They seem to do premium dedicated servers. Sooo premium you have to contact them for a price. So, expensive server + cacheing done correctly + probably professionally optimized .. That's how..

    If I was Vbulletin I would get in touch with this owner and showcase their site and say look how well our software runs blah blah blah
     
  10. ragtek

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    lol
    then you'll get the same effect like with their demo videos.
    The videos look really great, but they don't look like the software the clients are able to install
     
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    To those saying it's a small board, it has 22,000 threads that I can see, I didn't add up the post but it's not all that small in my opinion, although it's not a "large" site, it's not like it's brand new either.
     
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    sukagwe Regular Member

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    look at the footer

    Powered by: vBulletin Version 5.0.2. Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

    what does it means?
     
  13. Brandon

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    huh?
    What do you think it means? :rolleyes:
     
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    I think he wonders why Internet Brands is crediting the software to a company that doesn't seemingly exist any more. The official vBulletin 5 site credits it to vBulletin Solutions.

    So this site has definitely changed the footer copyright for whatever reason.
     
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    Probably upgraded from VB 3.x and did't update the phrase.
     
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    Still never run on real live site but I'm not sure why you guys suffer the slowness of vb5.
    It just took me a bit load time.
     
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    Is that something you would recommend for speeding up a VB4 forum?
     
  19. eva2000

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    For vB4 and vB5 you can use a front end web accelerator/cache like squid or varnish cache to speed up page speed and/or use a faster web server such as nginx or litespeed / open litespeed and deploy there respective caching i.e. nginx/php-fpm fastcgi_cache and litespeed 2 cpu license or higher, litespeed cache. I haven't used squid for such though so but Varnish cache is common one used by alot of large web properties such as Facebook and Wikipedia.

    My test 128MB VPS wordpress blog uses nginx with php-fpm fastcgi_cache https://blog.centminmod.com/ :)
     
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  20. ConfabIt

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    Wow, that is pretty quick. Unfortunately most of you are talking gibberish to me, so I will just assume it's out of the realm of possibility to make such improvements myself. xD
     

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