RE: [cobalt-users] [RaQ2] Ultimate Bulleting Board (UBB)

["Dan" <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> >>
> > My friend owns rapmusic.com and had to get a RAQ3 as the 2
> couldn't handle
> > their UBB and all the hits. It crashed the server several times.
>
> The Raq2 should be able to handle a pretty decently sized site, if the
> software running on it is decent.  I would venture a guess that UBB is not
> too well written (although a lot of people really like it).  I would think
> that the software should be replaced with more efficient code.
> If I am not
> mistaken UBB uses flat files, and you could gain much in performance by
> switching to a faster SQL based server back-end and perhaps your
> own custom
> code written in PERL or PHP.
>
I told him to look into PHP, but I guess it would be quite a chore to move
over to that. I'm not sure how long they archive posts. The main purpose of
it is to get banner views. I gather they're getting about 60 to 100K per day
so it adds up.
If someone takes a look at the site and has a PHP bulletin board solution
they'd like to sell them, contact me off list and I'll put you in touch. If
you can demonstrate a performance gain, I know he'll listen.

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Dan Kriwitsky