Hello I migrated from phpbb 3 and all is working good ! Content/categories/users were imported with no problems! Since this is my first install and use i have a question about speed. I am using cloudflare as DNS and also have proxied it for increase speed and cache. I have a VPS(not shared) wit…

Hi there, I visited your site and it is relatively snappy. Categories are loading in 100ms and threads in 230. If the site is hosted in Romania (based on the .ro TLD) then that is to be expected because I’m over in the US. If speed is still a concern for you, I would check to see the resource usage…

Thank you :folded_hands:t2: I’ll do more tests today for cpu usage. update: added 2 more cores and it feels much faster ..even the cpu usage dropped a lot. ill replace the server soon with a newer model since this one has an old cpu from 2012!

[image] aLinux: ill replace the server soon with a newer model since this one has an old cpu from 2012 Unless your chip is really weak that typically isn’t an issue. Webservers and databases like more threads and don’t usually benefit from super fast clocks the way desktop chips do, which is …

i had a HP ProLiant DL360e Gen8 — 1x Xeon E5-2420, 40 GB DDR3 4x sata ssd and replaced with Dell PowerEdge R630 — 2× Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4, 64 GB DDR4 4x sata ssd there is some difference but for now i cant see much(i moved all ssd’s with proxmox to the new server)

Fresh install/migrated!

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that DDR4 and the SSDs should help a lot with redis and postgres respectively, great upgrade overall

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Fresh install/migrated!

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