High Server Load with vBSEO

Hi,

Recently I upgraded to vBSEO 2.4.0, but since I upgraded to new release server load shoot up to 50+, Soon I disable vBSEO and take all entries from .htaccess server load become normal. I installed it on Zend Optimzer (eva2000 of vBulletin.Com suggested to uninstall it).

Please see attached image showing server load.

To keep my forum accessible by users I uninstalled vBSEO, but would like a fix or a solution so I can continue using vBSEO on my forum.

Thanks

We needed to do that to, I will install it back when we moved to our new server. We have a celeron now and it can't handle +100 users with vbSEO.

Maybe your config files need to be changed, contact a developer here, if that doesn't work you prob need a server upgrade like me.
What are your hardware stats?

Its Dual 2.4GHz with 1GB of RAM and 2x73GB (10KRPM) SCSI HDD.

I don't see a need to move to a new server. Without vBSEO, server load is 0.2 to 0.5, if there is something wrong with vBSEO it should get fixed by vBSEO staff instead of vBSEO users upgrading or moving their SERVERS.

Looking forward to hear from vBSEO staff to get a fix for this problem.

And thank you for confirming that you are also facing same problem.

Regards,

Hm yes in our case it was the hardware, our loads are already 10 without vbseo, if you normally have 0.2 - 0.5, then jumping to 50 isn't normal.

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I am noticing this too...

My server load jumped to about 50.0 today before crashing.

I don't want to uninstall VBseo, but it definetly is NOT working for me anymore.

My SERPS are sucking as well. I rank about 40th for my own forum's name.

If you want to solve it it's better to create a new topic, most of the time it CAN be solved. I'm not sure about your serps, that can have a number of reasons, vbseo is only one of them.

Limiting search engines in robots.txt to how often they spider helped me a great deal in the beginning. Yahoo in particular was hammering my site.

Originally Posted by Basit

Its Dual 2.4GHz with 1GB of RAM and 2x73GB (10KRPM) SCSI HDD.

I don't see a need to move to a new server. Without vBSEO, server load is 0.2 to 0.5, if there is something wrong with vBSEO it should get fixed by vBSEO staff instead of vBSEO users upgrading or moving their SERVERS.

Looking forward to hear from vBSEO staff to get a fix for this problem.

And thank you for confirming that you are also facing same problem.

Regards,

Im having this same problem with the latest version.(3.0 RC3 )

Exactly what can we change to reduce the server load using vbSEO? I disabled rewriting the images...anything else?

I have a normal server load of 0.50 without vbSEO and 1.50 to 2.0 with it installed.

Something isnt right..

Hello Mike,

There are various things that can be done to minimize load. My first suggestion is to change your rewrite rules to your httpd.conf file.

Find the corresponding <Directory> section to your site's domain via your httpd.conf file, and post your .htaccess rules in it. Restart Apache.

Remove your .htaccess file (or vBSEO rules within it)

Juan, I didnt seem to get it on the first try.

my httpd looks like generally looks like this :

<VirtualHost ip.address:80>

<Directory /home/forums/www/cgi-bin>

AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Theres alot of stuff in between..I generally gave the directory format. Is that the right directory with all that cgi-bin stuff?

And should I put the .htaccess coding above the "AllowOveride" stuff ? Or at the bottom below the "Allow from all" stuff?

i appreciate the help.

I just noticed this "How To" on how to do the httpd version :

rewrite rules to httpd.conf: How?

But it seems outdated..(december 2005) Would appreciate an updated version if possible.

You should add the following inside your <VirtualHost> section:

Code:

<Directory /full/path/to/forums>
RewriteEngine on
...
vBSEO's .htaccess file contents goes here
</Directory>

..should work

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

You should add the following inside your <VirtualHost> section:

Code:

<Directory /full/path/to/forums>
RewriteEngine on
...
vBSEO's .htaccess file contents goes here
</Directory>

..should work

Juan, you sure about this? On the link i posted -

rewrite rules to httpd.conf: How?

you guys say that the coding is different when your doing it the .httpd way. things have to be switched around and stuff it sounds like.

Ohhh.. yes but that's an old approach. My bad for not clarifying that.

Go with the simple solution stated above. Or submit a support ticket to have us do the change