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A lot of forums start out smart. This may be overstating the obvious, but when using forum software in general I feel most developments forget that. Every byte matters once your site becomes big. Maximizing your code performance to squeeze every last byte in the beginning will greatly matter once you are at that stage.

I obviously do not expect the development to cater to ever shared environment. That wouldn't be realistic. But it may be a good idea for them to run this on a few widely known and popular (large companies) shared host.

This is just a thought.

Yep, it's our aim to make Flarum work on shared hosting. In fact, it already does. For at least a few people. 🙂

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    Franz I'm running into a few issues and don't know if its the beta or my host, which is well known. I'm hoping it is only the beta, because I'm not moving anytime soon.

    I do have a resell account with them though (will not name them as I don't want to be accused of advertising). If you guys need an account (or need more details), drop me PM (no cost to you of course).

        @Franz @GOD Sorry for going slightly off topic.. I had a hearty laugh seeing this...!! Talk about top-endorsement for shared hosting! 😃

          tarun Ha ha ha ha. I'm just someone who has used a lot of different forum developments and they often forget that people start out small. Which is really a catch 22. You miss out on that group of newbies and you end up not maximizing your software to its full potential. True optimization starts with every byte.

              GOD I agree with you 100% on this. 🙂

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                @GOD Please save vBulletin's future. I pray you lead them into the right direction.

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                  Wombat Internet Brands (makers of vBulletin) are beyond a lost cause. They would need to develop it from scratch. This is assuming they could code worth a damn.

                  vB5 uses so much resources that even a dedicated server can easily find itself running into a bottleneck. If you're using them. Do not walk. Do not run. Fly away!

                    GOD Please open a new thread in the "Support" tag so that we can help resolve your problems. 🙂

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                        Franz Thanks for the offer, but I see no point as it fails to complete install. This thread in particular was only a commentary suggestion and perhaps made in good faith that Flarum will continue to optimize for even the little guy.

                          Flarum is already quite optimized.
                          Here's some stress testing of flarum I did.
                          There's a difference between highly efficent code and using newer versions of programs (which is why some users using shared hosting are stumbling)
                          In my test, you should be able to use flarum with a decent popular base on less then 128MB of Ram.
                          This is with a VPS however, which means I get to optimize the webserver as much as I want (something shared hosting doesn't permit - for plenty of good reasons). So you may get hindered performance on shared hosting, or better, depending on the skill of the operators of that shared hosting. E.g., a hoster saying you should stick with php5.4 would probably qualify as a operator who is hindering you.

                          This dev team is smart enough not to shoot themselves in the foot like what the Doscourse Elite team did.

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