Is this forum server backed up?

[kenjiMR]

This bulletin board here at NSXPrime is a lot of fun and provides
a lot of usefull information. I also own run a forum with over
10,000 registered users and over 800,000 posts now. Recently
one of my front end web servers totally crashed... The servers are
residing in the colo building and I havn't had a chance to look
at the extent of the damage, but fortunately, I am running a 2-tier
design. The base content resides on a dedicated database server
and front-end web servers serve the formatted pages. I had 2 front
end servers so it is still up and running. I know that this bulletin
board system does not have the ability for this level of redundancy
because I used to run this same software. It'd be a real shame if
we lost all of these posts... lets hope Lud has the forum archived
from time to time. Lud, have you considered switching to vBulletin?

Let me know if you'd like more info.

 

[ScienceofSpeed]

Kenji, you're a dork (but I mean that in a good way) ;-)

Remember that the Bulletin software is not cheap. I think Lud mentioned before that he paid about $100 to buy the software. Now, UBB ranges in price from $500-2500 (from memory).

I ended up building my own ASP-based bulletin board software for NT servers because of this price.

Cheers,
-- Chris

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[kenjiMR]

Wow! UBB costs that much now? Yeah, I remember it costed about $100 back
in the day. I'm not sure how much vB costs... but it does require higher
end hardware to operate. The benefits are great though. For a site this
size, I think the ubb is fine as long as you have a good archiving strategy.
I had to create new forums to alleviate the peformance problems due to storing
all the html files and directory structures on the file system.
I would usually migrate the forums when it approached 50,000 posts per forum.

Chris, I've written several of my own forum systems in the past... but the
stability and the features that vB has can't be achieved unless I had a LOT
of time. I actually had written several forum systems even before the UBB
cgi apps and the vB were even release a 4-5 years ago. I should have written
the UBB and marketted it. The technology is really simple...

The coolest aspect I think about the vBulletin is that it uses a database and
the search indexing is much much better. I'm sure theres a lot of room for
improvement, but its pretty good right now.

Anyways, after posting my original post, I realized I probably should have directed
this message at Lud directly instead of on the forum.