Not Sure If Anyone Can Answer This Or Not

[Betty1]

I've installed the message forum on my domain. Got it all set up and everything.

 

Now what I'm asking is this.

I'm planning to move off of the free board I've got and I plan on making the phpBB forum my permaneant forum. Can the phpBB board handle say 600+ members? Because my message forum gets a lot, and I do mean alot of posters and it's a highly active board.

 

Should there be a problem with threads and posts just disappearing? Because I'm having that problem on the free forum I'm using.

 

I'm wondering if the phpBB board that's on my own domain can handle all the traffic my forum gets.

[TCH-Bruce]

I can't answer this but you may want to ask the same question in the phpBB forum as well. I'm sure someone there will have the answer.

 

I do know that Invision would be able to handle it.

 

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/

Edited May 12, 2004 by TCH-Bruce

[MikeJ]

phpBB can handle it. However, depending on your traffic, you will need to keep an eye on your account resources and consider upgrading if needed (or you may be asked to upgrade if the usage starts to use too many resources).

 

According to Gaia Online's phpBB board (which I'm sure is on dedicated hardware though):

Who is Online - In total there are 3733 users online :: 2798 Registered, 167 Hidden and 768 Guests 

We have 578650 registered users

Our forums have a total of 67680750 articles

 

While phpBB isn't the most efficient for high traffic forums (vBulletin, a non-free forum, is one that tends to dominate in that space), I imagine it should handle 600 members just fine.

[Betty1]

Thanks for the answers.

 

I'm planning to switch over to a higher bandwidth plan since the space and bandwidth has been increased on them.