Thursday, May 26, 2005

Forums an experience

We are using the phpBB for our internal forums. We are facing issues on the performance of the forum. Ever after increasing the RAM we are not able to see any improvement. The issue may be because of the DB model or the query we are using in the application. Or it may be because of the table size. We wanted to fix this.

We used two machines to share the load one for the DB and the other for the client. This did not work out for us. We cached all the pages. Even then it was very slow.

We are going to try clustering. We will be having two servers for the DB synchronized by the master-master concept of mysql and four clients. A load balancer will be used. This may solve our problem.

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