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More Power
10-01-2003, 21:23
As some of you may have noticed, the BB was offline for something more than 45 minutes starting at about midnight eastern. We did this so we could move about 12,000 files from one folder on the server to another. This was done to allow us full use of the PHP accelerator.

Here's what the BB documentation says about the accelerator:

How does the UBB.classic Accelerator Work?

The UBB.classic scripts can be very intense on your web server. In order to reduce the potential load, the scripts create cached copies of many commonly requested pages, such as topics, forums, and the forum summary. The UBB.classic Accelerator uses a shortcut to get to these cached copies faster than the UBB.classic scripts.

For additional speed, the UBB.classic Accelerator may use zlib compression. The majority of web browsers can accept zlib compressed pages. Normally, zlib compressed pages are between 50% and 75% smaller than uncompressed versions. This can save your board quite a bit of bandwidth.

The UBB.classic Accelerator can normally serve between 30% and 60% of all requests for UBB.classic pages.

We are currently using both the caching and the compression utilities of the accelerator.

Please let me know if you see any odd behavior here in the forum.
(other than sdaver :D )

MP

gene smith
10-02-2003, 05:09
MO PO
thought something was different, thought ther was no one own cause it was running so fast. Gonna play around and see what else has changed. Good work keep it up.
Geno