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I see, also if my old Forums were on a Windows host is it possible to move the database to a Linux host or will I have to remain with Windows?

You can move database to linux, on all platforms mysql is same.

That tool is standard for benchmarks.

Hello, I am looking to change hosts from the one I am currently on however I would like to move my database to the other host and before I do it I would just like to make sure I have a few things correct. So I've exported my Database onto my computer (everything seems to be there) so would I just import that using myPHPadmin on a blank database then install the forums to using that database and keep all my things from old forums? >_<

This will work if you have small database, with databases bigger than 200MB you should import your database from shell.

on server where you have apache installed: "ab"

xcache 1.2.x doesn't work under suphp, xcache 1.3.x I haven't tried yet.

But like I said in other post you really need to optimize apache and mysql before you make switch to nginx or litespeed.
If you have any questions regarding Litespeed just let me know, I use it on few of my sites.

Like somebody said You should hire professional, you have misconfigured Apache and Mysql. Apache spawns too many processes and Mysql is not caching properly. WTF is that your cache limit is higher than your query size? 30 QPS is really low, ATOM 270 can handle that with ease and with 20% load. With similar xeon i had 120 QPS and I never had database error.

And you do not need to use mysql persistent links, I do not use it and my avg. connection is 10 max 47.

With similar setup (Xeon 3060 and 2GB of ram) I had more than 700 people online with 10 other sites and load avg. was in range of 0.5-1.5.

Please post output of this commands:

free -m
when site is under heavy load vmstat 3 and iostat

Thanks

If you want better performance get faster hdd and ensure that you always have enough physical memory.

Do you need screen shots that both of cache is used? I don't know about IPS but there are few applications that are used in that combo with big improvements.

Like i said memcached offloads database quite a lot and I have extremely busy database.

do You have any test results that Your recomendation is valid?

Few weeks ago I get a recomendation that both are usefull

On my local machine with no caching page generates in .15s
with gzip .14s
with xcache .12s with few less queries
with xcache, gzip and memcached .07

Memcache saves you queries your db is not so busy, and xcache saves your web server from loading too much because it pulls pages from ram, and it doesn't generates it everytime.

I don't know why nobody recommended it before but why there isn't option to also host signatures on same server as forum. There is no point of having really fast server when I need to wait users sigs to load from bad image hosting services. And every day there are more and more that kind of services, first that comes to my mind is imageshack which most of time is super slow or it timeouts.
With that option it would be easier to control size and dimensions of signatures.

Keep us informed, when IPS detect your problem maybe it would help someone in the future.

Hmm that looks OK, I would recommend to report this issue with IPS. After upgrade have you rebuild all the stuff IPS recommends and after that have you optimized your database?

First you need to wait 48h for tuning-primer to examine your settings.
Second try to optimize your database, and then check again if there will be slow queries.
Third do hdparm -t /dev/hda maybe disk switched to pio mode or something so everything is slowed down, with 11qps you shouldn't have any slow queries.
Fourth do also iostat to check if your hdd is too slow, you are really using old hdd.

Yes. One caches complied php and the other mysql queries. They do completely different things.

How many queries per second have you saved with memcache?

On my box it is not critical but it's always good to plan ahead, atm I got 163 QPS.

Think of it like this.. Would you rather a few people open the topic seriously asking when it's going to be released, or a topic poking fun at how it gets asked, and people can talk about it while they wait for it?

I just had to comment when I saw that you opened 3.0.3 topic, which staff closed very quickly. That is why I said you are acting childish.

Asking a question is not childish. A response such as yours... that is a different story.

So few hours ago 3.0.2 was released and he opened a topic for v3.0.3.

Did you even bother to read the first post or only the topic and then made a response?

Of course I read whole topic and I still think this is just waste of database space. Or you are trying to be top poster.

I would be happy if I never again see topic when new version will be out, so childish.

FYI IE 8 is really close to ideal look of IPB forum, rest of IE just break things hard. I use Firefox, but this is good news for my IE visitors, I can tell them to upgrade to latest version.

Alexa rely heavily on users having the plug-in for their browser so I would be incredibly wary of any statistics that it generates. In any case I have no idea why it would consider IP.Board profiles separate from the rest of IP.Board. They quite clearly use the same mark-up, design and URL as the rest of the board.

They changed their methodology, now only small part is collected from user plug-ins rest is collected from different sources. When they changed that most of sites are kicked out of first 100 000.
And regarding OP question I didn't understand what he is asking.

Did somebody tested IPB plugin with Sphinx version 0.9.9? It should be out soon as final.

If you check out the announcement and see the screen shot you will note we have a time out setting for just that purpose.

Thanks I missed that, so everything is covered then.

It will be listed as a core feature on our web site soon and also will show, quite prominently, in the client area. It's in everyone's best interest to encourage use of course :)

Cool I hope you will host this project on fast enough server from start :)

And one question what happens if server is not reachable, will be users still be able to register?

I used so far SpamBot search tool and only one or two spammers get in per month. And because I care about performance I hosted that tool myself. :)
http://www.h3s.org/anti_spam/?p=view

You don't "open" img tags....I'm not sure how you'd open them in a new window.

Imgs that are linked with an anchor tag would be covered by this setting already.

I meant in 2.3.6 version when you click on big picture it opens in new popup/window and now when you click on picture it expands and breaks forum layout.
I have tried to enable option open in new window and rebuild all posts without any effect, it still expands picture and breaks forum layout.

And what about img tags in new windows, if external image is big it would just break my forum layout.

Like somebody said he can delete his database within cpanel.