Gauravk Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Which type of default storage engine IPB recommends: Innodb VS MyISAM? Does any of below help or improvise IPB sites speed? mod_expire Memcached Opcode Cache Varnish Does Redis work for logged in user too or only for anonymous users? Redis best practice / configuration like maxmemory etc?  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 1. It's recommended to just use InnoDB. 2. Yes, it's good to set expiration headers on static content. Usually, around a month for static resources is recommended. For core stylesheets and such, IPS uses a "cache buster" query string any time anything important is updated, so you don't have to worry about old cached content causing issues. 3. Absolutely use opcache with PHP. Even with the default configuration it can make a major improvement in performance. 4. No experience with it personally. 5. Redis can be used to lower MySQL database load on things like view counters and such which are used for both guests and members alike. There's also other cached data that it can use to improve performance. Redis will improve performance primarily if MySQL overhead is high on your server. Gauravk and AlexWebsites 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauravk Posted March 31, 2020 Author Share Posted March 31, 2020 Can anyone please agree more on Innodb recommendation here? We use to use Innodb in the past and if I rem correctly someone here recommended MyISAM and we switched. This must be 3-4 years back, if things have changed today or Innodb is officially recommended with current version, please confirm and we will switch it back. What does usually self hosted site use here for IPB communities: Apache OR Nginx? MySQL OR MariaDB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Ashbrook Posted March 31, 2020 Share Posted March 31, 2020 InnoDB is officially recommended, yes. In fact some places, like AWS, don't even support MyISAM anymore. Apache versus Nginx and MySQL vs MariaDB really depend on personal preference, though bear in mind our support team are mostly familiar with Apache and MySQL. AlexWebsites and Gauravk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gauravk Posted April 1, 2020 Author Share Posted April 1, 2020 10 hours ago, Ryan Ashbrook said: InnoDB is officially recommended, yes. In fact some places, like AWS, don't even support MyISAM anymore. Apache versus Nginx and MySQL vs MariaDB really depend on personal preference, though bear in mind our support team are mostly familiar with Apache and MySQL. Thanks @Ryan Ashbrook so its time for us to switch to InnoDB then. Do you know how to do it as previously all these were managed by another admin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 In phpmyadmin it's as simple as changing the table type. That said, you should ensure your webhost has optimized your MySQL configuration for InnoDB first. Gauravk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheffielder Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Just checked my database on my forum and I have some tables are InnoDB and some are MyISAM What a nightmare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ASTRAPI Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Just convert them all to Innodb 🙂 Sheffielder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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