Just wanted to get some info or opinions on what's the best route to take with UBB. The fact that UBB 6.x "caches" is a HUGE downfall for high traffic sites. Such sites as hometheaterforum.com have reverted back to the 5.x code because of this. Many webmasters, including myself, have found nothing better than UBB 5.x code. When Infopop decided to do "cache" they really messed up sites with high traffic and use. It won't show up or come into play unless you get that traffic, about 100,000 page views daily and about 150-300 users on-line at once.
The only code that us webmasters have found to handle it without much trouble (regardless of hardware used) is the UBB 5.x code. No one will touch UBB 6 given the state it's currently in and it doesn't look like it will ever get better. If anyone with a LARGE site wants new code they have little choice in what's out there.
My hardware/software specs are:
800 MHZ PIII
512 MB RAM
Duel hardware SCSI-RAID 10GB hard drives
LIXUX OS
PHP
MYSQL
REAL Server Extensions
We are using the dedicated server for both our web site and forum. If we get large enough we might add a second PC dedicated to the forum only. However, the cost is quite expensive and we can get by with the old 5.x code for now.
I was just wondering what, if any choice beside the old code we have for webmasters with high-traffic? VB has also been known to cause major problems as well and we are not looking at that as our long term solution either. Is 5.x still supported by Infopop or here? We need the old 5.47e code and can't find it if that's our only choice right now.
One last note, does anyone know if Infopop will re-code better for high-traffic sites and do away with that **##!! cache junk? It doesn't look that way, but they REALLY need to talk to us like hometheaterforum.com and others that just can't use UBB 6 the way it is. We have no choice it seems but to keep the old 5.x code unless someone does something better.
Regards,
Jeff
