Large phpBB Site Examples

cspielman · Post by **cspielman** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:02 pm

As a part of my considering adopting phpBB, can anybody give sample URL's of phpBB sites that are "large", meaning lots of content, lots of users, high traffic, etc.

Thanks in advance. This is my first post...hopefully it's in the right place.

Erik Frèrejean · Post by **Erik Frèrejean** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:05 pm

This board

. An other one that comes to mind is bokt.nl which is huge. At big-board you'll find a complete list of big forums and the software they use

Elias · Post by **Elias** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:44 pm

You can also try google

onehundredandtwo · Post by **onehundredandtwo** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:09 am

Let me point out that GaiaOnline (the top forum on the big-boards list) isn't really phpBB any more. It was originally based on phpBB2, but has been very heavily modified.

Dog Cow · Post by **Dog Cow** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 9:57 pm

Right. That site really doesn't get maintained any more. The only thing that gets updated are the total post and user counters. The world's largest known phpBB site is bokt.nl

Post by **Marshalrusty** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 10:43 pm

Just a few:

http://forums.gameservers.com/
http://community.wolframalpha.com/index.php
http://forums.southparkstudios.com/forum/
http://www.dlife.com/diabetes-forum/
http://forum.videolan.org/
http://forums.virtualbox.org/
http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/
http://forum.ts.fujitsu.com/forum/index.php
http://forums.pearljam.com/index.php

Commodore Whynot · Post by **Commodore Whynot** » Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:46 pm

I'd always considered www.hbgames.org to be pretty big (550k) but compared to some of the above and bigboards, I'm astonished. I never knew gaia was phpbb - I think that's the biggest you're gonna find!

Dog Cow · Post by **Dog Cow** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:23 am

Commodore Whynot wrote: I never knew gaia was phpbb - I think that's the biggest you're gonna find!

You're about 4 years too late for that.

jaunty_mellifluous · Post by **jaunty_mellifluous** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:16 am

Dog Cow wrote:
Commodore Whynot wrote: I never knew gaia was phpbb - I think that's the biggest you're gonna find!
You're about 4 years too late for that.

They're shutting down Gaia; can't meet up with the costs. I got an email from their forum since I was subscribed!

Commodore Whynot · Post by **Commodore Whynot** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:41 am

Wow, that's rather surprising. The site I linked manages to cover hosting costs from google ads; I'd have thought a site Gaia-sized could easily get an advertising deal big enough to be fairly safe hosting-wise.

Erik Frèrejean · Post by **Erik Frèrejean** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:54 pm

The problem with gaia is that that site requires a server farm that isn't cheap to run (you can't host this on some cheap host ).

Gaia online stats @ big-boards wrote:Hardware: 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server

Elias · Post by **Elias** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:55 pm

Erik Frèrejean wrote:The problem with gaia is that that site requires a server farm that isn't cheap to run (you can't host this on some cheap host ).
Gaia online stats @ big-boards wrote:Hardware: 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server

That

is

sick!

Sam · Post by **Sam** » Sat Mar 13, 2010 10:20 pm

Erik Frèrejean wrote:The problem with gaia is that that site requires a server farm that isn't cheap to run (you can't host this on some cheap host ).
Gaia online stats @ big-boards wrote:Hardware: 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server

Every system admin here is salivating at that right now.

cspielman · Post by **cspielman** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:39 pm

Great. Thanks.

Dog Cow · Post by **Dog Cow** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:45 pm

SyntaxError90 wrote:
Erik Frèrejean wrote:The problem with gaia is that that site requires a server farm that isn't cheap to run (you can't host this on some cheap host ).
Gaia online stats @ big-boards wrote:Hardware: 80+ web servers, 11 database servers (4 dedicated to forums), 3 session database servers, 1 memory cache server
Every system admin here is salivating at that right now.

That data is nearly 4 years or more out of date. Their setup is twice as big as that.

They're shutting down Gaia; can't meet up with the costs. I got an email from their forum since I was subscribed!

Don't believe everything you read. If that were the case, Gaia would be closed years ago.

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