Problems with VBSEO

I have some problems with the VBSEO app. I do have a sports hadicapping forum and that before any sport game has lots of activity and have lots of users hitting refresh before a game to see the post from the hadicappers, I did installed VBSEO before and had to remove it due to the performance problems that I was having. Now I have setup a load balacer to help with that and I was wondering what the feedback is regarding this issue and if you think I will keep having this problem. Any information I will really appreciated it. The forum is http://www.therxforum.com

Thanks,

Edgar

If your site activity starts to excite your forum's capacity, then you will notice a slow down with vBSEO.

I think the real issue here is what you noted. You've identified one type of activity that adds to server load.

One recommendation might be for you to have an AJAX plugin developed for you that would allow the handicapping info to be refreshed, without refreshing the entire page and executing the vBulletin page scripts, etc, and pulling the full page content again and again.

With an AJAX powered plugin, it could automatically refresh itself, and would hit the server periodically, but would not have to execute the entire page to do so. Therefore you would cut down on your server load caused by constant refreshing.

I have seen this first hand with some boxing sites that do round by round reports while a pay-per-view fight is being televised live. Sometimes so many users keep refreshing the page, the server can't handle the load.