hi danailat

is joomla caching used in this component ?

tnx

no

is this going to be on the cards in the future ? or have you considered it yet?

as fireboard can not stand up to big numbers as we all know - the thing chokes - pity cos its all that is needed to make it a great com

Just to say that on my site

www.wikivorce.com

3000 users ,
Over hundred posts per day.

1.0.3 is much, much faster compared to 1.0.0 or 1.0.1

Mainly due to additional indexes on the key tables.

1.0.0 lacks a lot of indexes so as soon as message nbrs / user nbrs / category nbrs build up then the thing gets very slow.

Immediately after i upgraded to 1.0.3 the page views on my site increased by around 30%
(same nbr of visitors....but each now averages 13 page views rather than 10.....I put this totally down to more responsive forum)

100 posts a day - well yesterday had only 42 and yesterday 32 if im not wrong ?

- how long is ur site up ?

if there was caching used it would speed the component up about 10fold for big forums

Well,

I don't believe FB is too much resource hungry. The number of queries are high (on large websites) but they are pretty fast and repeated queries (unfortunately, will be revised)

Currently at our forum there are : 7568 users, 24000 posts and 60-150 posts a day and overall 5M hits. The processor is usually under 10% and the load is less than 1. Needless to say that we have several sites on the same server.

Also, in another forum, we have 400+k posts and 40+k members (there is the origin of Fireboard ) and daily hit of more than 1M only on the forum, and the forum that handles is Fireboard. It has some load (around 4, mysql 30%-60%), but with the risk of using another forum (like SMF nightmares) Fireboard is a bliss.

I would suggest to install the latest FB (or upgrade to it) and check the indexes of the database (you can install a clean one on your local host and compare the databases), also in addition you can disable Stats plugin and save a lot of resources.

Yeah same here you can disable stats and recent posts on the bottom as well. These are not indispensable since you have the "show latest posts" on top.
Latest fireboard version is quite good.

(ps: danialt, see my signature and your PMs here, or email, thanks a lot)

Should I upgrade to 1.0.4 for a faster fireboard? I still can not get it to run any faster, even after adding the indexes. Right now I am on version 1.0.3. The forum has over 5000 posts, which is probably slowing it down, but is there somethign other than adding the indexes that will speed it up? thanks