INGO Site Performance

[Lars]

As some of you know INGunowners.com moved hosts last year sometime around October from A Small Orange, onto it's current host 1&1. We had a little over 1000 members registered at that time.

In the last 4 months we have more than doubled in size. Which is awesome growth for a web forum like this. However it came at a cost. A few times over the Christmas/New Years holiday the server fell on it's face. Also as the forum has continued to grow performance has suffered as searching the database for "New Posts" when there are over 200,000 post is obviously more difficult than when there are only 50,000 posts.

Over the last week I've broken out the big stick, and have spent some time tuning server parameters on the 1&1 server. Some of the tuning has lowered our bandwidth usage which hopefully means we can stay on this plan longer before having to upgrade to a higher level plan at 1&1. The rest of the tuning I've been working on should have improved performance some.

I don't think I'm done tweaking the server, but it's at a point I feel comfortable saying we've done something.

If you're at all curious what I've done. You can go

Here: Part 1: Tuning a 1&1 VPS to improve a vBulletin board. | W9ZEB Dot Org
and
Here: Part 2: Tuning a 1&1 VPS to improve a vBulletin board. | W9ZEB Dot Org
and
Here: Part 3: Tuning a 1&1 VPS to improve a vBulletin board. | W9ZEB Dot Org

To read in a bit more detail what chances have been made. With luck you've noticed the difference (primarily in how quickly the "new posts" link renders) I can't do anything to improve the speed at which off site images are served. However anything located on the INGO 1&1 server I can likely improve the performance of.

Enjoy.