Charles

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

I'll post Randy's handy chart here again. S = Self Hosted and C = Cloud
 

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

I'll post Randy's handy chart here again. S = Self Hosted and C = Cloud
 

I wanted to let everyone know that we will soon be eliminating page views as a limiter on all our current offered packages.
Advancements in our underlying infrastructure have made it not as important to meter based on traffic.

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

We are currently in the beginning stages of developing a Courses and Lessons application within Invision Community. This will only be available on our cloud services as a value addition.
We receive regular requests for Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities in Invision Community and the Courses app will start us down that path. 
The Courses app is not going to try to be a full LMS. Not trying to run a university here 🙂
But we do think there is value in offering basic LMS capabilities within a community context. Some features we are already doing:
Ability to create Courses with multiple Modules Modules can have multiple content items that a member can read/engage (articles, videos, discussions) Courses can be made optional or required. Required courses can be defined as "do this first" or literally required as in you must take course within X days of joining community. Badges/points awarded on various completion events. Reports for those who enroll and/or complete a Course. Reports can be exported to CSV. As this is early development we are open to ideas and suggestions.
How might you use Courses?
What capabilities would you want to see?

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

Having two Matts still sometimes scares me.

Our support team has first hand experience in the drama of self-hosted servers. There's multi-page topics with people having trouble just upgrading to PHP8 🙂 

We are currently in the beginning stages of developing a Courses and Lessons application within Invision Community. This will only be available on our cloud services as a value addition.
We receive regular requests for Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities in Invision Community and the Courses app will start us down that path. 
The Courses app is not going to try to be a full LMS. Not trying to run a university here 🙂
But we do think there is value in offering basic LMS capabilities within a community context. Some features we are already doing:
Ability to create Courses with multiple Modules Modules can have multiple content items that a member can read/engage (articles, videos, discussions) Courses can be made optional or required. Required courses can be defined as "do this first" or literally required as in you must take course within X days of joining community. Badges/points awarded on various completion events. Reports for those who enroll and/or complete a Course. Reports can be exported to CSV. As this is early development we are open to ideas and suggestions.
How might you use Courses?
What capabilities would you want to see?

We are currently in the beginning stages of developing a Courses and Lessons application within Invision Community. This will only be available on our cloud services as a value addition.
We receive regular requests for Learning Management System (LMS) capabilities in Invision Community and the Courses app will start us down that path. 
The Courses app is not going to try to be a full LMS. Not trying to run a university here 🙂
But we do think there is value in offering basic LMS capabilities within a community context. Some features we are already doing:
Ability to create Courses with multiple Modules Modules can have multiple content items that a member can read/engage (articles, videos, discussions) Courses can be made optional or required. Required courses can be defined as "do this first" or literally required as in you must take course within X days of joining community. Badges/points awarded on various completion events. Reports for those who enroll and/or complete a Course. Reports can be exported to CSV. As this is early development we are open to ideas and suggestions.
How might you use Courses?
What capabilities would you want to see?

The old PHP7 cluster is sort of being held together with duct tape 😀
Please try to upgrade as soon as possible.

I just upgrade to 4.7.7 and KUDOS to IBP team well DONE. Specifically, Gallery update looks very professional...
Thanks again.

Well Randy's point is correct. Attacking him doesn't negate that 🙂
We really have released hundreds of features across all package types. Of course we are putting effort into our cloud offerings as that part of our business is growing and self-hosted is declining. That's been the trend for about 10 years now.
If you are experiencing a bug in the software that is impacting your community, please contact support. If you have a support request that is unresolved, feel free to directly contact a member of staff and let us know the topic or ticket.

I'm not sure what to tell you. In your test there you are not logged in so probably hitting Cloudfront cached page. In that case it's not even touching our servers and something like Cloudfront is optimized in ways none of us can duplicate.

I honestly have no idea why your server is behaving so oddly. You have several layers of cache methods going on there and a fairly complicated setup. You might want to consider simplifying your setup. You have a successful community but it's not SO active that it even needs things like Redis and the like. It's a case of when you spend so much time making a complicated, multi-layer setup and obsessing about every little millisecond of load time that you end up making the problem worse. Kind of like adding too many spices to your cooking.
Sometimes less is more 🙂 
Or... cloud 😉 

I honestly have no idea why your server is behaving so oddly. You have several layers of cache methods going on there and a fairly complicated setup. You might want to consider simplifying your setup. You have a successful community but it's not SO active that it even needs things like Redis and the like. It's a case of when you spend so much time making a complicated, multi-layer setup and obsessing about every little millisecond of load time that you end up making the problem worse. Kind of like adding too many spices to your cooking.
Sometimes less is more 🙂 
Or... cloud 😉