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If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.

Update: Related reading: How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?

If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.

Update: Related reading: How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?

If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.

Update: Related reading: How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?

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If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.

Update: Related reading: How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?

If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.

If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.

Update: Related reading: How to set up Nginx as a caching reverse proxy?

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If your forum's traffic is anything like the traffic I've witnessed in managing vBulletin, you really shouldn't be invoking PHP or MySQL for 50-75% of the requests (i.e. more than half of the requests come from unauthenticated "lurkers").

Take a look at implementing a reverse proxy for unauthenticated users if you haven't done so already - unless you've made some serious modifications to vBulletin, unauthenticated users won't be seeing any dynamic content anyway.