server configuration

We ran into a problem with our current database server and needed to make a new one, so I took the database backup, moved it over to the new one, and pointed the XF install at it. This caused Xenforo to fail to load due to timeouts, but when inspecting the transaction log, I can see that...

I'm running XF2.1 on a fully stuffed Dell R730 server. It has 24 cores and 512 gigs of ram. It's running dual webservers, a load balancer and a database server as VMs, configured via ProxMox. My Admin is very competent, but has been unable to successfully tune this server to handle a significant...

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/659970/why-is-it-not-advisable-to-have-the-database-and-web-server-on-the-same-machine This was found on a StackOverflow post. Right now, I'm connecting with root to my MySQL server so it would only take 1 more step for someone to mess everything up...

I saw your brief announcement about moving to "a new, very much more powerful server" (by @Kier) https://xenforo.com/community/threads/new-server.152722/ I just happen to be looking at a few alternatives for our server infrastructure, migrating away from a pure "bare metal" setup to some...

Hello, My vps have small storage.now i uploaded some zip,7z files in to another server.then after i want to enforce Xenforo user permissions to download that file from my external server.(https://myfileslink.com/database/filename.zip) because users sharing download links to another guys and they...

Hello everyone, For over 3 years now I have been working with https://www.centminmod.com/ to setup all of our servers that we have used on https://www.whippmedia.com/ Through that time I have found the best things that works for us when it comes to XenForo through constant testing. What has...

I recently upgraded from a legacy VPS to a managed dedicated VPS. I'm trying to optimize my server, but before I go into full-blow optimization mode, I'm doing the basics, like upgrading to PHP 7 from PHP 5.4. Is there anything I need to keep in mind while upgrading to PHP 7? Should I upgrade...