UBB.Developers Forums General Discussion Chit Chat Which is faster UBB or vBulletin?

I am thinking implementing UBB to my entire site, but I'm affraid it will bog down my server. Since my license is about to expire I'm am toying with this idea, either to stay with UBB or switch to vBulletin.

So which is faster?

It depends on your server, your connection and SQL configuration.

Generally, mySQL based boards are faster. But not always. UBB™ can be just as fast.

Its a tough decision, but you should see what 6.1.0 of UBB™ have in store...

UBB 6.1.0 should improve I/O which, I hear, is primarily what bogs down the server.

Thanks for the input.

I hope UBB 6.1.0 arrive next month.

I hope it arrives this month... tho there's no official release date yet

It can also depend on your server. My UBB runs on a fast server making it fast. I think Unix servers are slower with UBB then Windows servers are.

yes me and lord run are ubbs on the same server(windows 2000 server), its very fast *even on my 56k*

[ July 12, 2001 11:14 PM: Message edited by: Anime-loo ]

Yeah i believe ubb's run faster on NT servers than Unx servers. But I might be wrong.

I assume that since it is written in perl it should be faster in Linux system. :rolleyes:

vBulletin is faster

UBB still gets a decent second place though
Just kidding!!!

Why? It depends purely on the perl implimentation as to how fast it will run...

Other way around.

Are you sure? UBB isn't suprisingly fast on UNIX and my Win2k experiences with UBB were quite good.

I think he'd know... tho we haven't had problems here on win2k

Is there a way to speed the processing time, besides hardware upgrade?

Wait a few weeks until 6.1 is released. It will do big things for I/O time.

Other than that, not really, at least not any way I've heard.

---Skorpion

Unix handles large processes with MUCH more grace than Win32....

Oh, and Certify... I noticed in other threads that you use RaQs - we do *NOT* advise running UBB on a RaQ due to deplorable, terrible I/O performance. Nothing at all, not even a vB will run fast on those things.

With any luck at all, what everyone says that 6.1.0 will have in terms of I/O performance really will be true... (We don't actually have any true, conclusive proof of a performance increase YET... just need to measure it)

i originally had my board on an NT server and then i switched to UNIX, it seems they do run faster on UNIX IMO.

My Board runs faster on my win2k server than it did on my linux server but that doesn't matter.

Assuming you're comparing comparable processors and specs, a unix server will (nearly) always out-perform win2k. The only pure serving advantage win2k offers is the IIS has greater and more intelligent caching than apache. That said, bulletin boards don't need a lot of caching.

I use both, and both can be used to run high volume sites. My advice is to stick with unix unless there's a good reason you need a windows server.

Just a thought

I only switched to a win2k server because I got a good deal from it for free, I think my UBB runs pretty good they do run good on both unix and Win2k.

Dang... I dind't know RaQ were that bad..

Unfortunately true. UBB 6.0 can cause heavy CPU loads (30.00 ) on the RaQ3 but I never had real problems with UBB 5.47 except search.cgi

I hate it to say but vB works great on my RaQ3 w/256MB Ram and PHP 4.0.5. I had last week 366 users online and the RaQ survived that

There is a way to speed up UBB 6.0 but I never had the time to complete this hack:

I turned the cache inside out: Instead of creating all pages in the cache my hack generated all pages as static HTML pages.

arent u glade we got it fixed?

im faster than both.

Yeah, that user limit was really getting annoying.