What is the maximum number of users that boonex sturcture can support

Hi,

I start this forum to know What is the maximum number of users that boonex sturcture can support.

How many users do you have on your site ?

For example is 1 Million users can be possible ?

Did someone encountered bugs with a big quantity of members ?

You asking for the same question if you do a deep search on the boonex forum

you will fine the answer

You don't find answers becuse i don't think anyone really knows.

At least i don't know of any dolphin sites running with a million members.

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The following 'server' can support 60 people loading the main pages of the site as a guest resulting in an average of 94 request per second on a stock Dolphin 7.0.4 install.

Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop.

CPU: AMD Turion MK-36 ( 2 Ghz, single core)

RAM: 512 MB

Hard Disk: 80 GB

I have a document explaining my tests and settings but am not ready to release it. In a number of ways the tests did not reflect the 'real world' so these numbers need to be taken in the context of a limited test.

There are better ways of running a site for 1,000,000 online users then using 7,000 five year old laptops. (never mind that scaling that way won't work)

I'm not quite sure there's anyone running a Dolphin site on an old laptop (or a cluster of them).

There is at least one person.

The hardware I have available to run tests isn't that important.

From my work in progress document:

The goal is to get usable numbers to aid capacity planing for websites using the Boonex Dolphin 7 community builder script.

The plan is to use the test environment to simulate a Dolphin 7 site under load while making changes to the software systems in planed steps to see and record the difference in resource usage. Ideally this will  find and confirm an optimal Dolphin 7 configuration and then use the numbers as a bases for capacity planing.

There really isnt an honest answer to this question.... the answer has lots of dependencies... such as what your willing to do and have available...  multiple servers, load balancing, network etc...

a Dolphin site on a shared server is going to be quite limited, dedicated server will expand that number, then multiple servers, 1 for http, 1 for mysql, 1 for rms... then comes load balancing.  Another main component will be what OS and what http server.  then configurations will be key (getting mysql fine tuned, having RMS server fine tuned, etc.. for dolphin), killing off useless processes on a server, limiting the extension, because to be honest there is not 1 site out there that needs to use all extensions available, if you do then expect serious amount of servers and load balancing.

I had a huge vbulletin forum going, with all the bells and whistles going running linux with apache, that handled about 3k simultaneous members before bogging down, I then had the same site running lighttpd instead of apache capable of doing about 10k simultaneous.... I had 250k members about 70% were active daily, less than3% were active less than once per month.  Let me also say vbulletin was a HOG of resources.

I assume dolphin will be also with even half the extensions being used so my dedicated server is about the baddest beast I could get, so give me a little time and will let ya know what the beast can handle before I add other servers....

Has anybody figured out the DB space requirements per user? I'm trying to figure out how much space it would take if I had 100,000 users in the database. I don't expect to ever have more than a few hundred logged simultaneously.

The following urls can be helpful on estimating your server capabilities and reducing the site load (if in case):

• How to replicate Dolphin or setup Dolphin on a cluster
• How to calculate server load and hardware requirements for Dolphin
• How to improve Dolphin speed
• Understanding Dolphin cache engines
• Dolphin caching types
• How to setup Dolphin on Nginx