I plan on having an active forum. What does it take to run a vBulletin the size of vBulletin.com.
I have a related topic here: Server Specs for vBulletin.com? (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=102046)
What type of server software? Windows or Linux? Do you all use Turck MMCache or PHP Accelerator?
Makes my server look like a piece of trash. ;)
I believe they run Apache 2 on a Linux based box. That is all i know.
We are using a Dual Xeon 2.8 Ghz machine with 4 GB of RAM and a 73 GB Scsi Drive array. It uses Redhat Enterprise 3.0 as the OS. We are using Apache 2.0, PHP 4.3.6 and MySQL 4.0.18 to power the websites. Our monthly bandwidth allotment is 2000 GB. VBulletin 4.0.1 Installed::
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Thanks for the information Wayne.
A dedicated server at least do handle the load of the system resources (or a managed solution). But it is not impossible to run such a site as this on a shared hosting solution (but you would probably run into the account limits like traffic/load much sooner then in comparison with dedicated hosting).
(Also, vBulletin.com has the other sister sites hosted on the same server)
I would recommend a dedicated server, with about 150GB monthly bandwidth to be safe. Then you may require about 5GB initially, but may need to increase this.
I know a bit about it after asking my web host the same question.
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What does it take to run a forum the size of vBulletin.com?