Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 12/22/05 11:44

it all depends on the setup you're using. How well the code is written,
how much fluff it has (eg. a lof of bbcode parsing makes the forum a lot
slower), and a few more factors like that. If you're going to have a
very big / active forum, I would suggest not to use a package as
provided by multiple companies (vb, phpbb, xmb, ipb, etc) but to write
your own and try to minimize the amount of work it does (especially
heavy-duty work like regexp parsing, image-parsing,
database-connections/transactions, etc.). If you do it yourself, you'll
be sure you have optimized it as much as you can for your server
specifically. If you use a bigger package, it'll have lots of fluff you
don't need, and generally will use older (slower) language constructs to
be backwards compatible (back to php 4.2.0 in most cases, or even earlier).

- tul

Ruben Rubio Rey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Im looking for a good forum thats supports high load. (Now between
> 300-2.000 active sessions, much more in next 2 years)
>
> I have heard about vBulletin and PhpBB. At the moment I think vBulletin
> is the best choice, because I know some very big places that uses it.
>
> What do u think about this?

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