1) Would anyone here like to say whether they think it will be able to offer a good level of performance on this hardware and with this level of traffic?

2) Is there any documentation on optimisation of YAF (application config and SQL level)?

Thanks

Brian

Nice to see some interest in switching from CS to YAF!

I believe YAF can handle that level of traffic on server as long as you run YAF version 1.9.4 on SQL Server 2005 OR higher and turn Full Text Search on. (Performance is DEPENDENT on 2005k or above features.)

Also, make sure it has plenty of memory. 4GB should do fine.

There are some larger YAF forums out there:

http://www.thingfling.com/forum/  (easily 10k users)

http://forums.drwho-online.co.uk 

Dr. Who online is a huge forum (20k users) with tons of traffic using a modified version of YAF (register to view). I helped with the performance tweaking of the site so I know he is not running modified SQL. When they came to me they were having scalability problems, but they are resolved and available in v1.9.4 of YAF.

FYI, this forum is running on a dedicated co-location server similar to the one you have.

The reason I want to move off CS 2007 is because personally I've found it to be a resource hog, and I have been having performance problems with it during busy periods. As well as this, IMO the codebase is very bloated, and a lot of the functionality it provides is of no use on my site.

I've installed YAF and started looking at it with my site admins. I'm hoping to migrate the user accounts from CS 2007 in the next couple of months. The YAF codebase looks good to me. It's seems much easier to modify than CS 2007.

PS: One problem reported to me is that iPhone's have problems editing message with the version of TinyMCE packaged in YAF 1.94.

Brian

No problem. I wasn't aware of the TinyMCE issue with an iPhone. Is it fixed in latest versions? If not, YAF supports other "Rich Text Editors" (e.g. FreeTextBox) -- so there are other options.

Appreciate your comments on the codebase. Now it just needs more documentation. :)

-Jaben

I've not had chance to plug in a newer version of TinyMCE (if there is one) but will look into this. I've tried FTB on a local installation and that maybe an acceptable solution, although my version of CS uses TinyMCE and the members are familiar with it now.

Yes, more documentation would be excellent!

I've tried different versions of TinyMCE. The latest release (I think) 3.2.7, and the beta, 3.3.2. The problem seems to still be there in both versions. In addition, 3.3.2 appears to introduce a new problem in some browsers (Safari on Win, Google Chrome, possibly FF) when pasting text. After pasting it is no longer possible to type in more text or edit the existing text, although it is possible to post the message.

Well, I don't have any control over the TinyMCE project. Not sure what could be done...