Posts tagged vbulletin
The demise of a forum software giant…
Jun 26th
Everyone know’s I’ve ran a multitude of forums online. With ranging software from SMF, phpBB, IPB, vBulletin, and just about any software you can find, I’ve tried to run a community on it. You also probably know that any time one of those forums would look promising, I’d almost instantly make the switch to vBulletin software since it was by far the best software around. Bug free, well supported, nice mod community, etc etc.
I used that method for over the past 8 years while working on-line, and it always worked great. vBulletin at the time put out a fantastic product that lead the market in every aspect possible. No doubt about it, that using vBulletin software, would lead to continued success of the community. This all abruptly changed recently when Jelsoft (vBulletin’s parent company) was bought out by Internet Brands (Stock: iNet). Every aspect of this forum has went down hill, to now an almost unusable state on a production environment. More >
vBulletin 4 optimized .htaccess
Dec 18th
This .htaccess will optimize your server and increase your page load scores (higher score is a good thing). This will set the images to expire after a certain amount of time as well as numerous other optimization tricks for your server. These set the expires headers for images, and set some cache-control headers as well. Place this at the very top of your .htaccess file, remember to back up and test first.
How to serve parallel hostnames for vBulletin Optimize vBulletin 4
Dec 18th
Most modern browsers default to two simultaneous threads per hostname. This leads to overhead and latency as the browser will only grab two objects at a time. One of the biggest pitfalls of vBulletin (especially 4.0) is the amount of graphics and javascript served from the same hostname. Setting up parallel hostnames is fairly simple and I’ll outline the steps on a cPanel installation and vBulletin 4.0 stylevars system. The entire process doesn’t take more than 15 minutes even for novice users, and you can easily do more to further optimize your vBulletin.
