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Trekkie101:

--- Quote ---PS1: the hosting server is a dual Xenon 3Ghz, 1Mb cache each CPU, 4GB RAM,
running apache 1.3.33, php 4.3.10, mySQL 4.1.10a-standard hope it`s OK
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 :o OMG!

Is that a dedicated server?

winnet:

--- Quote from: Trekkie101 on March 28, 2005, 05:27:58 PM ---
--- Quote ---PS1: the hosting server is a dual Xenon 3Ghz, 1Mb cache each CPU, 4GB RAM,
running apache 1.3.33, php 4.3.10, mySQL 4.1.10a-standard hope it`s OK
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 :o OMG!

Is that a dedicated server?

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what do you understand as dedicated server? if it runs only this domain?
no, actually it runs more domanis, but this one is the bigest, others are mostly html, little php, the medium load is around 15%

[Unknown]:

--- Quote from: winnet on March 28, 2005, 05:20:04 PM ---One questions: I am pretty disappointed with search engine of phpBB so I want to know how the search engine works in smf? i want to not index a lot of common words, this generally goes to a very large table for wordsmatch, wordslist
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SMF does not do this.  However, 1.1 will have an option to use MySQL's (better anyway) fulltext search functionality, which is what you'll want.  Charter Members are getting 1.1 Beta 1 very soon.  Very.  Emphasis on very.


--- Quote ---is any possibilities to create the search tables starting from posts?  I am willing to empty those tables if it is possible to recreate them from posts and topics after a successfully convert operation
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Of course.  Fulltext indexes, in MySQL, can be added and removed and optionally used.


--- Quote ---medium I have 1200 different visitors and around 30.000 views per day and it make 30-35Gb traffic per month so is not very loaded; more correct is a medium forum not a big one
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We pull 45 gigabytes, as I may have mentioned, here.. but there is SMF for download, which is a good size chunk of it.  The server is a Celeron 1700Mhz with 512 megs of ram.  In comparison with your server, simplemachines.org's (which also runs yabbse.org) is a... not an ant, but like a squirrel.  MySQL 4.1 is very okay ;).


--- Quote ---PS2:if there is any possibilities to do some statistics, I will do it for you and for others interested peoples. I administrate my site from a cpanel interface, I dont have other access to server, so if you have some monitoring stuff that I can put them to work from there ok, will talk about
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Glad to hear it :).  You don't have any ssh access though?  That should be fine, but it makes it easier.

I would suggest sampling load averages over a period before the conversion, once every hour to try to grab any peak times.  A quick top or ps could grab cpu and memory usage.  Then, the same after the conversion and we get a comparison.  To make it fair, though, is the harder part: we want to make sure the comparison is equal, that emails are getting sent for both in the same way, etc... which should still be easy :).

Thanks very much for both the interest and the willingness to look into statistics.  Please pm me if/when you've decided on the conversion with the date so I can help you more directly arrange the benchmarking (should you still be willing and interested.)

-[Unknown]

Ben_S:
Your forum should fly on that server, I push approx 10GB / day on a busy day, over 100,000 page views /day  on the forum and 400,000 - 500,000 page views / day across the entire site (all SMF SSI.php based) with no problems on a server significantly less powerfull than yours (P4 3GHz 1.5GB ram SATA hard disk).


--- Quote from: Trekkie101 on March 28, 2005, 05:09:18 PM ---did you miss out the biggest? http://www.40konline.com/community/index.php

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Biggest by number of members, not in terms of number of posts these days though ;)

Oh and another large board is www.craftster.org (idk's), thats very high traffic.

scottb:
Perhaps one of the most active SMF forums to date though its in Thai. Its cleaned out regularly but they get roughly  5,500 posts a day.

http://rcweb.net/forums/

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