Tagged: vbulletin

Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) vB 3/4/5 Compatibility

With Windows 8.1 GA release, Internet Explorer 11 will make it’s presence known more. vBulletin version 3, 4 and 5 currently have some incompatibility issues with IE11 and for now fellow colleague and vB tech, Zachery has released 3 vB documented work arounds for IE11 detection. You can find the...

vBulletin hacked forums: Clean Up Time

With recent vBulletin hacking going on, here are some of my personal suggestions from my personal experience in cleaning up the mess. I have continuously updated and extended the info provided below, so be sure to check back regularly for more updates. You can use Chrome Page Monitor extension which...

pigz parallel gzip compression revisited

Today, revisiting pigz – a parallel gzip compression alternative to gzip. I had a client who’s MySQL sql database backup came in at 9.9 gigabytes in size and he was running a level 9 gzip compression on the file which took ~48 minutes to run on his WHM/Cpanel powered dual...

eva2000 interview at theadminzone.com

TheAdminZone.com recently interviewed me and you can read the full interview to understand who I am, what drives my constant quest for server optimisation performance and the significance of my username here.

vBulletin 4.1.11 released – improved CMS performance, Premium Mobile Style and CDN support

vBulletin 4.1.11 is a maintenance release focused on improving performance, resolving issues in the CMS, Premium Mobile Style, and issues with high user impact. The release contains: 11 user created hook requests, improvement requests, and feature requests. 37 issue fixes related to the CMS. 31 issue fixes with a severity of Major or...

vBulletin 4.1.10 Released – major stylevars refactor & bug fixes

vBulletin v4.1.10 was released. Probably one of the more major updates with major Style Variables refactoring and bug and performance improvements. Including Style Var Mapping. Check out Darkshenron’s vBulletin 4.1.10 Style Var changes list. Style Var Mapping As a result of the 4.1.10 stylevar changes, there have been a number...

Revisiting vBulletin Datastore Caching – memcached servers reducing MySQL server load

Back in March, I illustrated how two Litespeed web server based vB clients of mine were using vBulletin Datastore Cache feature + vB Optimise Pro plugin to offload some MySQL load to 2x or 4x Memcached servers. You can offload caching to APC Cache or Xcache as well if you...