I think you guys should look into adding UBB, even the freeware version. Simply because, you can track each member, each IP, and organize/moderate the forums. If you are in lack of moderators, I would be happy to do it.

Please consider it,
Brittany<ul><li><a href="http://ultimatebb.com">http://ultimatebb.com</a</li></ul>

 

It was not equipped to take the 20+ million hits this site gets per month. Be patient...Johannes is working on the customizations to make this software registration-capable.

The UBB software could not hack it...

Steve S.

 

Understood, but doesn't the Vortex get 2x that?

 

Anyway, we tried it....and we didn't like what we saw. Be patient...Johannes is "really" working on a registration process for Audiworld. Keep the faith. Remember we all have full time jobs outside of audiworld. Mine just got really demanding...so I know I have less time to be on the boards to help with stuff.

Steve S.

 

Sorry I got hot tempered below. Folks like us remember rickp's story, and my blood boiled. I'm sure Johannes' mods will work great, I'm looking forward to it.

In this thread, I only mentioned vortex's hits because I know they have UBB and TONS of traffic. I didn't mean to suggest anything.

To all of the staff here: thanks for the effort,
Rob

 

No problemo....

 

Was that before or after their forums were down for 3 months??

 

Our stats for January 2000 put us at about 14 million hits on our forums. The big thing to remember is that hits are most often counted as page requests with most stats programs. The BBS software Audiworld uses requires that every thread *and* every response be opened to read it (unless someone just posts within the subject header), thus racking up tons of page requests. UBB usually contains all the responses in one page (unless there are more than 40 responses and then it goes to a second), so there is only one page request.

Steve S. is right though, UBB is a server resource hog of major proportions. They are supposedly working on an Enterprise version that will finally do away with PERL as the backend. We'll see...

-jamie

 

Everyone here is pretty familar with news groups and how they work. Here is the good about using a news server. It is meant to take alot of hits and it can also be used in a cluster to split the load. For example you could have a news server for each forum if you ever found the load to get to high or you can even just split it as needed.

I have setup news server before and put up an HTML interface to connect and display the information. IE you can keep your same display format as you have now or improve on it. You can also setup user accounts to require membership to post else read only would be allowed :-)

You can also filter and remove threads you can even have moderated groups. There are plenty of search engines for INND and you can even implement automatic archival as needed.

A good news server can easly handling 40 million hits a month. And you can use Linux with say a P2-400 with 256Mb Ram and I recommend either 5 2G drives or maybe a couple 4G 10K RPM drives. And this will be pretty high end. Else you can get a couple P133 with 128Mb and couple IDE drives.

I ran a news server where I use to work I had the at one point the top 36 news server in the entire world. And all I used was three PP200 with 128Mb of Ram and two 9G drives in each on Linux. The secret was peering points and specially modified INND code by me for better performance :-)

I can help :-) I have a cable modem at home I can setup a sample server. And finaccee (soon to be wife) is a Web Designer and can put up a nice display.

Just a suggestion.

The other idea is to use an Oracle Database and develope a front (which wouldn't be hard) to allow posting and removal of posts.

Just wonderng what are you guys using now?

 

We're currently using PHP as the frontend to a MySQL backend for all of the messages.

Right now CPU isn't our biggest problem. Bandwidth is.

We've thought of using a news server in the past, but we wanted this to be a web based forum. The same could be said of a mailing list.