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Best forum software from FEO point of view - lena - 06-17-2013 02:46 AM
Amongst the following five forum software:
- bbPress
- miniBB
- phpBB
- SMF
- vBulletin
Do you know which one(s) is(are) the best concerning the following three metrics:
- The avatars and [images] attachments are cache-able [or can be configured to be cache-able] and cache-ability can be delegated to Apache to use mod_expires;
- Likewise for the associated css and javascript files;
- The generated HTML documents have a cache-ability mechanism, for instance Last-Modified header.
RE: Best forum software from FEO point of view - GreenGecko - 06-17-2013 04:00 PM
I only know phpBB and vBulletin, and it's a draw... mainly because avatars/images are stored externally, as are css/js so their expiry is a function of the web server config.
Both these two also generate FE cache versions of their pages.
RE: Best forum software from FEO point of view - lena - 06-17-2013 07:18 PM
Thanks for the feedback, GreenGecko.
One last question though, if I'm not abusing of your help, do you know some good tutorials to optimize PHPbb or vBulletin?
RE: Best forum software from FEO point of view - GreenGecko - 06-20-2013 04:24 PM
(06-17-2013 07:18 PM)lena Wrote: Thanks for the feedback, GreenGecko.
One last question though, if I'm not abusing of your help, do you know some good tutorials to optimize PHPbb or vBulletin?
I just treat them as any other app... my preference is to use a LEMP stack, ensure that the database has adequate memory allocated, and you use a decent opcode cacher like APC.
That's a good starting point. After that, monitor resources and feed accordingly
RE: Best forum software from FEO point of view - 5vlast - 06-26-2013 05:27 PM
PHPBB
RE: Best forum software from FEO point of view - lena - 06-30-2013 12:18 AM
Thank you all for the feedback.
One reason why I opened this thread is because I know that SMF snores with respect to image cache-ability, as only avatar images can be delegated to Apache.
On the other hand SMF has a very good optimizing tutorial, cf.:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293441.0
Although PHPBB is allegedly better, I still haven't found any good optimizing tutorial.