Hi guys a sad sad day.... I've now moved away from runnign IntegraMod as it just could not handle the user loads we were experiencing.....
With 18 users and around 70 guests the site was so unusable, about 15 seconds a page refresh, up to 30 sefconds to make a post. Okay we had a lot of heavy extra Mods like SOE and M2F, but towards the later days these were removed with little speed increase.
On our SrevInt VPSPro Solo server we were hitting cPanel CPU loads of 8-15 CPUs which telsl how bad it became.
Now we commonly have 50 plus users logged in and 70-80 guests so far peaking at 80 users logged in and 53 guests - site load averaging 0.08 of a CPU with 'Quick Reply' posts taking place in less than a second and normal pages loading in less than 2 seconds. Oh and this is with commercial SOE optimisation as well.
Okay we've lost some facilities and it costs IIRC $108 for the vBulletin license, $149 for the SEO system, $19 for the site skin, but it does mean we can expand.
We lost some things like downlods and avatars in the migration but everr user and post migrated.
I guess that when one hits a certain levelk of use on the site that one has to go down this or similar routes, but it is still a sad day. I loved working with IM and you guys but one has to think of the benefit to the site and the users.
Needless to say I'll still pop in here on occasion but not as often. A sad day but we all have to move on.
See you soon!