While the current Hostboard system really can not be compared with, the previous system's architecture was not all that complex.
Old Hostboard server consisted of:
Asus twin P3 mother board (800mhz), 1gig ECC RAM, 3 7200rpm, 75gig EIDE hard drives running on a Promise Technology RAID controller (see note below), RedHat Linux 7.1, 3Comm 100mb NIC.
The server was configured with only the bare essentials to run the system (dedicated server). If it was not needed to run the system it was not loaded.
This supported roughly 20k users and 800 message boards under UBB v5.47
As for the Promise Technology controller, this was
the biggest mistake I ever made in my 12 years as a network engineer in designing a server. Under Windows it runs great. Under Linux nothing but 1 major headache. The driver at the time (it has since been released as open source code so might fare better now) had major memory leaks and crashed the server at least once per week. As long as I remembered to reboot the server every couple of days things were fine.
If you want I will share my current networks configuration but it should not in any way be used for benchmarking nor comaprision to anything else out there.
But it is handleing around 3000 message boards and I am closing in on the 100,000th
registereed user
