3000 Members at Once

**CPInteract** · Jul 5, 2003 11:03

1) If I were to have 1000 members on a daily basis, can someone give me an estimate of how much space and bandwidth it will take on a month?

2) How exactly should I prepare myself as an admin for such environment (3000 members)??

**Dan Grossman** · Jul 5, 2003 19:33

Let's say a page of your forum is 50KB including images and HTML. Each of your 1000 daily members views an average of 5 pages in the forum per day. With a 30 day month, that would be 7.5 gigs a month of traffic. If I made a math mistake I apoligize, I need a calculator

But 7.5 gigs isn't that much. My host (see site in sig :P) gives 20gb normally and 50gb during their sale for 9.95/mo which would cover that and it will probably be a while before you're getting 5000 pageviews a day anyways.

**I, Brian** · Jul 6, 2003 03:49

Originally Posted by CPInteract

2) How exactly should I prepare myself as an admin for such environment (3000 members)??

It would be likely you would have significant time to prepare for such an eventuality. But general preparations would immediately include having a team behind you to admin such activity. Usually a forum admin would have plenty enough time during the growth of a forum to gauge which are the most reliable people over time to consider as possible team candidates.

There is something to be said for gradual success.

**platinum** · Jul 6, 2003 04:00

as I mentioned on vbulletin.org - you'll need several servers to share the load

It would want to be worth it to setup that kind of thing.

**hockyfan** · Jul 6, 2003 10:57

How would you be able to get so many members so quick?

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**seanf** · Jul 6, 2003 10:59

Originally Posted by platinum

as I mentioned on vbulletin.org - you'll need several servers to share the load

You would if it's vBulletin

A very plain and deliberately efficient forum should require less

Sean

**platinum** · Jul 6, 2003 17:07

WHT is pretty plain - and they only(!) have 600-1000 people online at anyone time. They're running 2 quad xeons (one fot the db alone) and still it can get pretty slow when theres 1000 or so people online

**seanf** · Jul 7, 2003 03:45

vBulletin (talking 2* here, not investigated 3* that much) is not an efficient program though. One query for every avatar, that's not good

Sean

**M. Johansson** · Jul 7, 2003 03:56

The SomethingAwful forums had 2103 members online at most, and had serious problems with vBulletin. They are now running their own hacked-down version of it, which I assume involved buttloads of caching.

**Bleys** · Jul 8, 2003 11:12

It'll be awhile before your site is as popular as SA... unless you're giving away cash or something.

**Jeremy W.** · Jul 8, 2003 11:46

Well, you can reduce the number of queries. Some admins have gotten it down to under 7 for most of the pages.

**Heinrich** · Jul 10, 2003 00:55

Originally Posted by CPInteract

1) If I were to have 1000 members on a daily basis, can someone give me an estimate of how much space and bandwidth it will take on a month?

2) How exactly should I prepare myself as an admin for such environment (3000 members)??

1. 1000 members online ? u will need around 1.5-2 GB bandwidth / day
or 45-60 GB / month

2. choose some good member to help you as moderators or super moderators

**Bilal** · Jul 20, 2003 01:39

Well, I never saw a such forum, which have 900+ members online, If any site get such traffic, then I think that site was web largest forum!

**M. Johansson** · Jul 20, 2003 05:19

Originally Posted by Bilal

Well, I never saw a such forum, which have 900+ members online, If any site get such traffic, then I think that site was web largest forum!

Not at all. As I said earlier, SomethingAwfuls forums had 2000+ members online at one time, and it's certainly not the largest forum on the web.

**M. Johansson** · Jul 20, 2003 05:20

With that said, vBulletin CANNOT handle such loads without serious modification.

**phpcoder21** · Jul 21, 2003 12:17

Might I suggest Phorum? Its a feature packed forum software package thats extremely quick. (http://www.phorum.org)

**edshuck** · Jul 26, 2003 13:56

I think craigslist would be near the top. This is from a posted faq on the site.

Q: How much traffic does craigslist get?
A: Currently, about 300 million page views per month

Q: How many people use craiglist?
A: Currently over 2 million each month

peace

**M. Johansson** · Jul 27, 2003 00:18

Originally Posted by edshuck

I think craigslist would be near the top. This is from a posted faq on the site.

Q: How much traffic does craigslist get?
A: Currently, about 300 million page views per month

Q: How many people use craiglist?
A: Currently over 2 million each month

peace

Heh, that's a very simple HTML layout, there. And a very simple forum software. Guess a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. But 300 million? Yowza - and I didn't even know about this site! SomethingAwful only has a measly 21 million pageviews per month.

**dethfire** · Jul 27, 2003 20:08

blows my mind how they get so much traffic

**mrlb** · Jul 28, 2003 01:18

Dethfire sorry to be rude but your site ( physicsforums.com ) lacks something which i find really annoying and it is the sequence in which you have lisated the boards..... we can discuss it firther if you PM Me.

Else i find PF reallllllllllyyyyyyyy interesing.....

If you can do a bit of mods talke my word instead of your mind the traffic will blow your server ;-)

Lord

**DarkAngelBGE** · Aug 1, 2003 14:51

I'd like to know how craigslist get such traffic volumes with such a painful site/forum layout. :S

It's just my opinion, though. :P

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