URGENT QUESTION: Moving from vBulletin 5 to Xenforo

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Moving from vBulletin 5 to Xenforo

I used to have our forum with vBulletin 4 and everything was perfect. Unfortunately our Webhosting shut down operations and I was force to move out.
We decided to move it to the vBulletin 5 Cloud solution, they migrated the DB and upgraded it to VB5 database.
The forums speed was extremely slow, and they ended up suggesting to move to a self hosted VB 5 connect version, which we did, speed improved but still slow comparing to the VB4. I was the worst mistake to upgrade.

Anyhow, We have been reading about Xenforo and looks very interesting. But we would like to know if Xenforo can handle a 16GiB database with 391k+topics and 4.9+ million posts. Just one thread has over 3.5 million post.

Here are my current server specifications:

Centos 6.10 KVM
cPanel/WHM v70.0.55

• 4 CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz - 4Mb Cache
• 8 GiB Ram / 16 GiB Cache

vBulletin 5.4.3

• Topics 391k+
• Post 4.9+ millions

PHP 7.2.9

• PHP Max Post Size 64.00 MB
• PHP Maximum Upload Size 8.00 MB
• PHP Memory Limit 384.00 MB

Apache v2.4.34
MySQL Version 5.7.23

• Data Usage 11.75 GB
• Index Usage 6.90 GB
• MySQL Packet Size 256.00 MB

 

[Claudio]

Moving from vBulletin 5 to Xenforo

I used to have our forum with vBulletin 4 and everything was perfect. Unfortunately our Webhosting shut down operations and I was force to move out.
We decided to move it to the vBulletin 5 Cloud solution, they migrated the DB and upgraded it to VB5 database.
The forums speed was extremely slow, and they ended up suggesting to move to a self hosted VB 5 connect version, which we did, speed improved but still slow comparing to the VB4. I was the worst mistake to upgrade.

Anyhow, We have been reading about Xenforo and looks very interesting. But we would like to know if Xenforo can handle a 16GiB database with 391k+topics and 4.9+ million posts. Just one thread has over 3.5 million post.

Here are my current server specifications:

Centos 6.10 KVM
cPanel/WHM v70.0.55

• 4 CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz - 4Mb Cache
• 8 GiB Ram / 16 GiB Cache

vBulletin 5.4.3

• Topics 391k+
• Post 4.9+ millions

PHP 7.2.9

• PHP Max Post Size 64.00 MB
• PHP Maximum Upload Size 8.00 MB
• PHP Memory Limit 384.00 MB

Apache v2.4.34
MySQL Version 5.7.23

• Data Usage 11.75 GB
• Index Usage 6.90 GB
• MySQL Packet Size 256.00 MB

XenForo can handle more than 100 Million+ posts for sure:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/the-large-xenforo-forums-list.87974/

You may want to move away from Apache to get better performance and fewer server resources usage. Consider LiteSpeed or Nginx