Dreamhost PS isn't vBulletin friendly. Any vB-friendly webhosts?

Mahzkrieg

Mahzkrieg

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TL;DR: Dreamhost PS has ALWAYS been a problem for my vBulletin forum. Looking for webhosts that specifically cater to busy and growing vBulletin forums.

The DAY I moved my forum from shared hosting to Dreamhost PS is the day the unending 500 errors, burpy downtime at night (most inactive part of the night), and generally awful forum performance started.

Forum stats
MySQL stats for the past month:
- DB disk usage: 5 gb
- Connects: 1.8 million
- Queries: 22.0 million
- Conqueries: 65 MCn
Bandwidth this past month: 80 gb
RAM usage:
- is at 700mb at this second but I've seen it shoot past 1gb last night when I was in an epic battle with the server/db, a battle with many casualties.
Forum: approaching 2 million posts total and almost 800 members sign in each 24 hour period.

Hell, I timed out the DB multiple times throughout last night because I simply wanted to alter the `posts` table to add a column. phpmyadmin times out and suddenly the forum can't even add posts/threads, delete posts, or edit posts for 30 minutes each time I tried to add one posts column.

I've poured through vB optimization article after article. Cached everything I know how to cache. One step away from utilizing Amazon S3 CDN. No abused scripts; Most active requests are two core vB JS files, a core CSS file, and then the website banner.

Conclusion

My budget is $150/mo. Considering maybe something like http://www.urljet.com/vbulletin-dedicated-servers.php.

I'd like a managed hosting package as I don't want to have to worry about server config and admin. Preferably would like a host that specifies vBulletin configuration

Would love to hear from other successful vB owners.
 


CDN the JS, image and CSS files. Stick the MySQL on a different server. That should be enough to cure a lot of your pains.

Also, use your .htaccess file to tell browser-side users to cache all the static content very heavily.
 
jelf said:
Get a real host...
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True dat. See sig.

I can hook you up with whatever you need for hosting. I also have a programmer who deals with vBull, and integrations who can help with things you need. That said,... I have never heard of a host having those types of issues with vBull, so it is something rare. It's not to say that it has never happened, but I have not heard of those issues and I have used vBull for years on my own stuff, as well as clients.

All the same, let me know what you currently have and I can work you up some pricing.
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I was in a fit of rage when I wrote this thread. I write a lot when I'm raging, snapping my keyboard in half across my knee, and punching holes in my sheetrock. I think I get that from my girlfriend, but unfortunately she just talks instead. :music07:

Refrozen said:
CDN the JS, image and CSS files. Stick the MySQL on a different server. That should be enough to cure a lot of your pains.

Also, use your .htaccess file to tell browser-side users to cache all the static content very heavily.
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Concise but amazing advice. Never knew what a CDN was and now it's a painfully obvious implementation.

Will see how this goes.
 
Dreamhost isn't a lot of things, anything thats gona hit up the database a bit shouldn't be used on something like dreamhost. If you want VBulliten and a number of other things, don't do anything less than a virtual private server.

And for the love of god don't fall for their ploy to upgrade to that dreamhost PS shit... you might as well get a real VPS for that price.
 
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