UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? UBB 6 poor choice for high traffic sites

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

Hi,

UBB v5.47e is available in the UBB Members Area. UBB 5 is still unofficially NOT supported by Infopop although I think they may respond to tech inquiries about it.

Cache or not to cache is unknown at this time. Ted O'Neill hasn't commented publicly on it ever since that 1) it's been shown that there are run-on conditions prevalent in UBB and 2) he's accepted that cache slows many servers down.

Here on UBBDev, UBB5 is still supported. However, very few hacks have been made on UBB 5. UBB 5.47e also has bugs which have not been fixed. For example, there's still a security bug present in UBB 5.47e (self reference cpanel*.cgi embedded inside an img tag).

My ex-site, boards.wizards.com will be moving to UBB 6 soon and they are on excellent hardware (they are hosted @ Exodus Communications) so I'll really like to see how they do.

If UBB 5 is really getting to the point where it's getting unbearable, you may need to move onto a product such as OpenTopic or database-backened based BB product.

Good luck!

qasic

Would turning off UBB Caching in Misc. Settings do anything about this problem?

well said Anyways, UBB6 isn't that bad,and I realized that it can take up a huge amount of server blob,but who cares, it's UBB!