Tips to speed up vB?

[dakar]

I've tired plowing through vB.org looking for ways to cut corners to give my forums a bit more of a speed boost. Most uneeded stuff has been disabled (at least the things I could find or think of). The DB server is not local to the webserver so there is a bit of inherent latency, but yet page generation averages between 200 -300 ms with under a dozen queries each... I know it can be a lot faster.

Aside from the internal disabling of unused thigs I've added the template compressor.... got some good tip/tricks on giving her a good swift kick to get her moving?

Figure we the colelctive minds present we could gather a good list in one place for them.

[Peggy]

have you gone into your acp to maintenance and optimized your db/tables/etc?

truthfully, I do not think it's your vB. I have a fairly heavily modded forum and I have no problem with speed. I really think it's your host/server

[Joeychgo]

Article already on the site

Optimizing Your vBulletin Forum To Run Faster (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/optimize-vbulletin-server.htm)

[Peggy]

well silly me! I read that article last week and implemented many of the changes.
Sorry for not remembering... been a bad morning so far..

[dakar]

Thanks... employed a couple that I'd missed in the past. We'll see if they make any significant differences, if not, then I think a dedicated box is going to have to happen sooner than later.

[Peggy]

I'm cringing at the thought (cost), but it'll have to happen for me as well, eventually

[Joeychgo]

Thanks... employed a couple that I'd missed in the past. We'll see if they make any significant differences, if not, then I think a dedicated box is going to have to happen sooner than later.


If your talking about captive reefing, you have no need for a dedicated box. That site should be fine on a shared server.

[dakar]

That's the vB site I'm working on at the moment... up to half a second to display a thread seems awfully slow to me. But living on a shared box makes it hard to tell if it's my site dragging or if it's others that are causing slowdowns.

[Joeychgo]

I was on shared for a long time. I owned 2-3 forums already, one with over 2000 members before I moved off shared onto a VPS.

If you cant get good performance on that forum, just try changing hosts. The problem may very well be your host has old or underpowered servers. See this article: Choosing a Web host for your vBulletin Forum (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/web-hosting.htm) - there are a few good hosts listed there.

[dcristo]

I agree I think it's a server issue. If you haven't got REALLY busy forums, the problem ain't vB. I recently converted my phpBB board to vB and there's a notable performance boost!