We’d like to talk to other people running large vBulletin forums to discuss scaling and other growth planning.
To give you an idea of what I mean by large, Boards.ie currently pushes out 45-50 page requests per second (threads and posts, not images or static files), has more than 5,000 users online at peak every day (and growing), 120 posts every five minutes at peak and averages about 500 queries per second across the three production DB servers (discounting replication).
There are more than 1.3 million threads, nearly 19 million posts, and over 300,000 registered accounts. We serve more than 30 million pageviews and 1.6 million unique visitors per month (Google Analytics).
We also had a post last week with a (high level) overview of our current hardware.
If these numbers look familiar, we’d like to talk, and hope you’d like to also! We’d like to know what sort of changes you’ve made to improve performance, what you’ve cut out or disabled (or added) and we’ll be happy to share our insights too.
Drop me a mail ross@boards.ie if you’d like to get in touch.