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freevps.us is a MyBB forum that runs on a leb last time I heard - @dmmcintyre3?
Yeah I think it's pretty nice for a free forum, it has the same look and feel as Vbulletin.
I just noticed that a lot of big boards like Debian, Virtualbox, Videolan, Wacom, Fujitsu all use phpBB
It's on a 96mb OVZ
Yes, I might, but since the time of the original thread Prometeus migrated the OpenVZ node to a faster Xeon and also I went from OpenVZ to KVM (to a different node), so things might be different. I might need to do the whole thing again I guess. So do you want added +MyBB +phpBB?
Would you mind to put SMF on your test bed?
http://forum.lowendspirit.com runs FluxBB on 64mb OVZ I still cant get over how snappy it is
Tiny db yet PunBB used to run into issues with a large db -- to do with search indexing IIRC -- that caused it to slow down significantly and suck memory. But that was a couple years back. I haven't followed it recently.
OK, so the ones you are interested in are:
Vanilla, MyBB, FluxBB, SMF, phpBB, PunBB
?
Hell MyBB is magic. Give it a small bit of optimization and it screams.
How about adding bbPress as well ?
I know it runs on top of WordPress as a plugin, but still a choice for many using WP already.
I will just say this. Even though Vanilla maybe slower, it is a TON better. It allows for more functionality, and has common things you would want in a modern day forums anyways. Fluxbb has them lacking still. Like friendly URLs still isn't built in.
I can add it as well. The interesting thing about it is that WP has a variety of caching plugins, what can work really well, but I don't know how well integrated they are with bbPress. Does anyone know if W3TC or Super Cache works with bbPress?
bbPress folks claim that:
i would like to see its performance stats without WP caching.
OK, so I'll do one with and without W3TC. But Wordpress without caching is a no go. It could eat the most powerful computer just from a couple of connections.
Why so? Isn't it the same php & mysql that any forum is using in the backend?
I usually test my WP installations (php-fpm, nginx & mysql) using blitz.io and the results are not really bad.
Wordpress without caching is crazily slow, uses a large number of SQL queries and lot of resources.
Did some tests
WP empty site, no plugins and globally disabled comments (this is unrealistic, the slowest part of WP are the plugins): 26 trans / sec, drops 87% at -c200
W3TC + alternative PHP cache: 328 trans / sec, no drops at -c200
Yes, in the same way as how
printf( "Hello World" );
uses the same C as the Linux kernel :-)@zsero Thank you for the quick tests. The results have enlightened me
I think Vanilla is great too, but would you really use it thinking that it may be a turn off to people who is unfamiliar with Vanilla? It may affect your membership base.
What would be some typical MyBB optimizations?
+1 @raindog308.
That would be very interesting. I went to check your blog out after reading your comment @Rallias, but it appears that you have taken it down
in ~/conf/config.php for vanilla forums add this code:
$Configuration['Cache']['Enabled'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['Cache']['Method'] = 'memcache';
or
$Configuration['Cache']['Enabled'] = TRUE;
$Configuration['Cache']['Method'] = 'memcached';
Sometimes one is borked, but usually I like memcached. It is the ultra secret of the universe, so don't tell anyone.
$Configuration['Cache']['Method'] = 'memcache';
$Configuration['Cache']['Method'] = 'memcached';
@Mun, is there such a thing for PHP APC?
Not sure.
Yeah, all I wana know is how fluxbb and phpbb cope. mybb isn't really something I would ever use.
But a forum comparison i never a good comparison if it doesn't include phpbb, the most popular board on the world ;/
Vanilla, MyBB, FluxBB, SMF, phpBB, PunBB
Have you got a chance to complete this testing?
+1 to that. Any update?
As I promised I'll be doing a 2nd part of this test, as soon as I have time for it. At the moment I don't have time for it, maybe in the next month I'll have.
nice discussion for forum owners. im using vanilla bcz
This is my site old 1 year http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/geek.lk
Vanilla is very nice, it's lite weight and effective. Just look at LowEndTalk! :>