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well done!
vBulletin = quality merchandise.
Great move guys, I admin a couple of vBulletin sites and have written some vBhacks, it's great software and well worth the licence. Good move. BTW, if ever you are over at www.vbulletin.org - my user name is tril0Byte (check out the hottest hacks) BTW, you guys really should consider installing vBPortal http://phpportals.com/ it's a vBulletin addon thet gives you an integrated and database driven front end to the forums. It's all coded in PHP and integrates into the SQL database, with some great features that could be well exploited here - photo galleries etc, all searchable and indexed to members/users. It could be very useful - check out the demo site. Last edited by Martyn; 06-14-2002 at 02:35 AM. |
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Thanks Martyn,
We've already looked in that direction. You're right, that's good stuff. Because we're so busy, we have to do this integration one step at a time. Right now, I want to watch the base forum script's influance on the server loads for a few days. Once we get a view on that, and if all appears well, I think we'll begin the mega-hacking sessions! Alex __________________ Alex Whetsell [======]~~~~~~~> Atlantavirtual.com Atlanta NOC |
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I agree. Well done. I really like this software and am extremely comfortable using it. Thanks.
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The server seems pretty speedy at the moment, but there is only about 1/2 dozen online. |
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Thanks guys!
Martyn, we're a web hosting company. All of our internally managed sites are sharing server space with our other independant clients on dedicated IPs. There's likely 4 or 5 other copies of this software on the same box as this one. I know of 2 other copies running 1000 or so members, but I'm sure there are others. Moving the software to a new provisioned box is also an option if we need it. My cheif concern was the basic raw code and it's influance on the load on this one box. We run some pretty intensive hosting software on our system, webmail, smartlists and such, but my main concern is to make sure the users who are on purchased space continue to receive the performance that we're known for. This box, for instance, has about 200 IP's on it, but it's been up for 224 straight days since the last reboot. That was done when we upgraded our control panel software. I guess the tradeoff is "sites for having fun" and those that are "mission critical". In other words, we'll kill the PID of a fun site in 2 seconds, where we might let another run a little more intensively if the load is not sustained over a couple of minutes. So far, I'm pretty happy with it ... beats the heck out of some other junk we've looked at. We're looking at several other applications to integrate here, so over time, who knows? BTW- since you have experience working with that portal software, we may want to ask you some questions concerning the install if we run into something weird ... that ok? Thanks again ... the portal looks good on the surface. Alex __________________ Alex Whetsell [======]~~~~~~~> Atlantavirtual.com Atlanta NOC |
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Hi Alex, my apologies, I should've looked a little deeper, I didn't realise you were a sys-admin of a hosting company - doof
Having total control over load balance is a sweet place to be, so i guess there are no issues there. Most the hosts I know of have started to *insist* their clients use vB instead of CGI, the load isn't nearly so great - or so it would appear, but I guess you'd know that 224 updays, no surprise to see you're running apache on redhat I'd be happy to try and answer any portal questions, though I doubt you'd have any. The install is pretty straightforward, not as consumer friendly as vBulletin by any means, but not a bear either. It's pretty much based around the phpnuke system and most of the phpnuke modules can be integrated into portal with little or no modification. I suppose you could code the whole shebang yourself, many do, but for me portal offered a more straightforward option - I'm no PHP coder either. The integration with vB is very strong, which presents strengths and weaknesses. It's great to tap into the functionality of vB, but a major pain for upgrades. There are probably a dozen or so vB files which need to be edited for portal, which means any upgrade to vB pretty much kills your portal install. Nothing new there though, but the job of installing a vB upgrade does present with some work. It's not perfect, and if you can code PHP then you may prefer doing your own custom job, but a lot has already been worked through with portal, it's heavily integrated with vB and very customisable. It's a good compromise IMO - and it's free Cheers and thanks again for doing such a great job. Martyn. |
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Technogeeks! :confused:
Roger |
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Alex and Martyn are in their element talking over this gobbledygook. I have enough trouble remembering which characters is a 'winky' and which is a 'smiley' On a serious note, I gotta say that I am SOOOOOO impressed with the whole darn thing. I am even liking the colors!! Much better than the grey! Alex, you're my HERO!!! Coop |
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I liked the grey but then the world is all shades of grey ....
Roger |
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Man, I've been out of the Unix Geekdrome for six months now, and I don't have a manual handy. Let's see, the fun_daemon is eating up more than it's share of CPU time slices and bogging down the system. I think this would fix it, right? I'm not sure about that field 5 on the end being the location of the PID, but I think this is close. Unix System V style: kill -9 `ps -ef | grep "fun_daemon" | /usr/bin/cut -f5` BSD Unix style: kill -9 `ps -aux | grep "fun_daemon" | /usr/bin/cut -f5` |
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#! /bin/sh # /sbin/init.d/runlevel.3 case "$1" in start) need stabalisedbuckeye need damascus.2 mount -handleslabs ;; stop) umount -bankbalance ;; esac # End |
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Whaaaa ha ha ha!
Alex __________________ Alex Whetsell [======]~~~~~~~> Atlantavirtual.com Atlanta NOC |
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Heeeeeeeeelp I'm caught in technospeakland.......
Roger |
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