How is this vBulletin 5.x site running so fast??

This forum was posted on the com and I'll have to say, it is lightening fast!
It's currently running 5.0.2

http://forum.photoshopuser.com/

Does anyone know the owner, it would be wonderful to find out what they did to get the site so quick!!

upgrade discussion http://forum.photoshopuser.com/foru...ent-any-issues-or-bugs-with-new-forum-upgrade

 

It was posted in the VB section that vb.com had hard drive issues, and was not running on SSD's.

A new started forum , would run pretty quick, and the demo board I had up, was lightning quick for me on a low end dedicated server I keep around. Only l5420's.

5.0.2 made a ton of headway and is a lot quicker.

but yeah, that forum is quick quick quick.

 

I'd assume it's some of the following:

1. The forum is medium sized rather than huge.

2. It's on a pretty good dedicated server (or really well configured shared host).

3. They've used a bunch of caches and things.

4. Third party add ons

Probably all four.

 

I have yet to see/hear of any 3rd party add-ons for VB5 that claim to increase performance.

 

They could also be serving pages as files for guests.

 

I am registered as a member, and it is just as quick.

 

From server headers on that forum, i think they're running Squid cache front end proxy.

Code:

Date	Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:46:48 GMT
Via	1.0 squid1.kelbymediagroup.com (squid)
X-Cache-Lookup	MISS from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com:80
Server	Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Vary	Accept-Encoding
X-Cache	MISS from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com
Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8
Cache-Control	no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Connection	keep-alive
Content-Encoding	gzip
Content-Length	12076
X-UA-Compatible	IE=edge,chrome=1

CSS file

Code:

Cache-Control:max-age=31536000
Connection:keep-alive
Content-Encoding:gzip
Content-Length:53
Content-Type:text/css
Date:Sat, 08 Jun 2013 06:54:41 GMT
Server:Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Vary:Accept-Encoding
Via:1.0 squid1.kelbymediagroup.com (squid)
X-Cache:MISS from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com
X-Cache-Lookup:HIT from squid1.kelbymediagroup.com:80

That and small vB5 forums do load quickly - my own private test vB5 forums are lightning fast

vBulletin.com server setup/hardware isn't optimal (I don't have any actual access so nothing i can do about it). But that is only part why vB5 isn't any where as fast as it should be.

 

good coders replacing the original code ? *scnr*

EPIC!

 

lol
then you'll get the same effect like with their demo videos.
The videos look really great, but they don't look like the software the clients are able to install

 

To those saying it's a small board, it has 22,000 threads that I can see, I didn't add up the post but it's not all that small in my opinion, although it's not a "large" site, it's not like it's brand new either.

 

look at the footer

Powered by: vBulletin Version 5.0.2. Copyright ©2000 - 2013, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.

what does it means?

 

huh?
What do you think it means?

 

I think he wonders why Internet Brands is crediting the software to a company that doesn't seemingly exist any more. The official vBulletin 5 site credits it to vBulletin Solutions.

So this site has definitely changed the footer copyright for whatever reason.

 

oh nice eye @sukagwe thanks @CM30

 

Probably upgraded from VB 3.x and did't update the phrase.

 

Still never run on real live site but I'm not sure why you guys suffer the slowness of vb5.
It just took me a bit load time.

 

Is that something you would recommend for speeding up a VB4 forum?

 

For vB4 and vB5 you can use a front end web accelerator/cache like squid or varnish cache to speed up page speed and/or use a faster web server such as nginx or litespeed / open litespeed and deploy there respective caching i.e. nginx/php-fpm fastcgi_cache and litespeed 2 cpu license or higher, litespeed cache. I haven't used squid for such though so but Varnish cache is common one used by alot of large web properties such as Facebook and Wikipedia.

My test 128MB VPS wordpress blog uses nginx with php-fpm fastcgi_cache https://blog.centminmod.com/

 

Wow, that is pretty quick. Unfortunately most of you are talking gibberish to me, so I will just assume it's out of the realm of possibility to make such improvements myself. xD