Photopost 5.0.3 server resource questions

Johnny Doomo · September 9th, 2005, 05:25 PM

I have a site running Photopost 5.0.3 and I was wondering if any server resource hoging bugs were fixed between 5.0.3 and 5.14?

I have a dual 2.8Ghz Xeon box with 1GB of memory and my gallery usually has 30 people on constantly throughout the day, but it can spike to 60 - 90 users. The only other real intensive site I have on the box is a VB 3.0.7 forum that that normally has between 200 - 300 users.

I didn't think that a forum this small and only this few of people on my photopost site would cause problems with a box as powerful as this, but the host is telling me that it is and are trying to swaying me to get another 1Gb sick of ram for a monthly charge of $50 a month or a one time fee of $400.

Does anybody know any solutions or have had similar problems trying to grow their galleries popularity? Anybody that can provide any info or pointers they would greatly appreciated. If there's a way I can save money I would really like to know about it.

Thank you!

Chuck S · September 9th, 2005, 05:54 PM

VB is a resource hog but as far as Photopost is concerned I would definately upgrade as the code is less intensive

Johnny Doomo · September 9th, 2005, 06:26 PM

less intensive by a small bit or a good deal? Since I like to really customize my photopost installs I'm just wondering if it's going to really change the fact that I am going to probably have to fork over money for that 1GB stick. :\

Chuck S · September 9th, 2005, 06:59 PM

well lots and lots of code changes from 5.03 to 5.14

HobbyTalk · September 11th, 2005, 01:46 PM

I have just about the same number users but only about 10 people on-line on my PP. Considering I only have a 2.4 Celeron and 1G RAM my server still easily handles the load with less then .6 load almost all the time. While upgrading to the lastest versions is always recommended I would suspect your server could be better optimized for php/myqsl.

You may also want to disable some of the optional more server intensive operations on vB such as displaying Current Active Users on main pages, Birthdays, etc.

Chuck S · September 11th, 2005, 01:52 PM

Yep and when VB 3.5 goes gold you should upgrade as its alot faster than VB 3.0

Johnny Doomo · September 12th, 2005, 11:44 AM

Thanks for the info, I will try turning off some of those features you mentioned. I will unlikely upgrade to vb3.5 as I've already tweaked 3.0.7 up the ***. If I woulda known 3.5 was a great deal faster maybe I would have held off on some of the modifications, but the upgrade to 3.0.7 was a must from my old 2.0.3 maybe when 4.0.3+ comes out I can upgrade again.