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Advice needed
winnet:
Is anyone here who has a forum this large?
just a link I need to see how it works on posting, reply, etc. no admin needed :)
I want to probe this smf forum before to convert my phpBB
Since now I like it, looks nice, a lot of features.
All I need is to find the functionality, the uptime, the comportament when it will be 100 users online, 1000post/day minim, etc.
thanks in advance, you probably will have another users of smf soon.
Grudge:
Well, Ben S's forum is pretty big:
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/
Obviously it does depend somewhat on the server. Are you dedicated hosted? (i.e not shared)
Also, you run > MySQL 4.0 I assume, as this will make a big difference (SMF is optimised for 4.x)
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--- Quote from: winnet on March 28, 2005, 12:22:47 AM ---Din anyone has any success or horror stories with similar forums?
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This forum is bigger, we seem to do okay. That said, this server is dedicated... I hope you're not on shared hosting?
--- Quote ---how large it will be the database after? is any significant change in mysql load? cpu load?
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Probably about the same size. I would guess less, hopefully, depending on your MySQL and server configuration. While we've had success stories with phpBB conversions - even large ones - no one has actually made measurements.
Come to think, would you be willing to do so? I'd be more than happy to work with you to help make sure their accurate - both for phpBB and SMF. No one likes inaccurate statistics.
--- Quote from: winnet on March 28, 2005, 02:34:48 PM ---Is anyone here who has a forum this large?
just a link I need to see how it works on posting, reply, etc. no admin needed :)
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Okay, well, first - you're posting on one! Don't blink! Also:
http://www.redandwhitekop.com/ (as mentioned)
http://forum.msi.com.tw/
http://www.blaqboard.com/v2/Diesel/Edition/ (bling bling, Elijah Bliss ;).)
http://www.dubcc.com/forum/
http://www.chevyavalanchefanclub.com/cafcna/
http://www.tmlfans.ca/forums/
http://www.hfstival.com/yabbse/
http://board.win32asmcommunity.net/ (I know they converted, I think from phpBB)
There are a few tips for running a larger forum, especially if you're a Charter Member.
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Trekkie101:
did you miss out the biggest? http://www.40konline.com/community/index.php
winnet:
thanks for the examples, some of them are really big, I take my time one or two days to navigate a little on those to see how are doing
in the mean time I`m working on a test forum to understand the admin panel and the features
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
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
I made some prune on my forum and I reduce the number of posts to 100.000 more or less, but this is the minimum I can get
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
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
PS2:if there is any posibilities 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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