Just bought a Forum - Reviews Please

[Knight Rider]

Hey guys,

I've been doing quite a bit of work on Denim DNA Forum ~ An Authentic Denim Forum lately. I moved it to a VPS and now have 1/10th to 1/20th the load we had at Hostgator and installed vBSEO as well. I'm hoping to get some thoughts from you guys. I'm going away on vacation for a few weeks but when I get back I'm hiring a theme designer to make a custom theme and logo.

Thanks in advance,

Reid

[mparadise]

amazing.. just above 2k members and still over 300k posts.

[Knight Rider]

amazing.. just above 2k members and still over 300k posts.

Yeah, they are a fairly active bunch. Some days we hit 1k posts per day, minimum is around 500 posts per day.

Anyone else have any thoughts?

[Joe Ward]

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[Knight Rider]

Put in a new theme. Do the server speeds seem slow to anyone?

[MadK]

Put in a new theme. Do the server speeds seem slow to anyone?

Yep, agreed. I have better speeds with some shared hostings and some websites that I know that are using a shared hosting have faster speeds than this!

Overall, it's a great community, especially with so little members and so many posts BUT you really need to optimize your forums somehow or just get another virtual server, because this is SLOW.

[Brandon Sheley]

I would add some forum descriptions if it were me

[EGS]

How do you put pictures to the left of forum names?

[MadK]

How do you put pictures to the left of forum names?

Do you mean category icons? They are in by default in 3.7!

Custom Catagory Icons - vBulletin Modifications