just wondering if you have or plan to install any of the following performance features:

• switch to lo-fi template when server load is high
• cache forum/home pages instead of pulling data from database
• automatically remove non-essential features like "board statistics" display when load is high
• switch to lores images (gallery, nav buttons, logos, etc) when traffic is higher (load or bandwidth)
• auto-throttle by ip, so if an IP hits apps too fast, it gets the lofi templates
• block google/spiders from accessing things like "last post" link or anything else that creates duplicate pages. if a spider, don't offer the link. same with images, registration pages, help pages, etc.

o:) And for all of us without server-load visible (we're using lighttpd), a feature to throttle the 'load' ourselves. (I don't mind)

I always welcome more cacheing.

It'd be ideal if IPB can come with a LUA script you can stick in lighttpd to point to cached HTML pages (using mod_magnet) ... that will be like getting out of a ford escort and sitting in a ferrari.

The last suggestion can be done quite easily with a robots.txt file.

I definitely agree with #1. I've been in situations before when the server load was over 125 (no joke) and the main index page took like 5 mins just to load. This would help a lot imo.

The last suggestion can be done quite easily with a robots.txt file.

please show me an example of how it can be done.