Question Kunena traffic volume capacity

I am not familiar with how forums generally perform but I am wondering what the upper limit of traffic is for Kunena. My site will soon be generating very high traffic, upwards of one million and more per month. Would Kunena be able to handle this volume? Or say even two or three million per month?

awkuena: Are you still using K 1.5?

No I will be using the latest version. Does that make a difference in terms of capacity?

K 1.6.x makes a difference in terms of performance.

The ability to handle a internet traffic depends on a number of factors (as I am sure that you and everyone else reading this topic will be aware). The more traffic you get, the more demand is placed on your server. The more demand placed on your server the overall effect on server performance and responsiveness is impacted.

It therefore depends on the following issues:

(a) What version of Kunena you are running. K 1.6 is more improved than K 1.5 ... everyone knows that!

(b) What kind of web-hosted solution you have in place. If you expect bucketloads of visitors you may need to consider a dedicated server (or at least a server with an appropriate amount of bandwidth)

(c) What other software you have running on your website.

You are in the best position possible to know the answers to these questions. You can run comparative trials between two similarly-configured websites: one with K 1.5 and one with K 1.6 and you will be able to judge the difference for yourself.

If you want empirical data we can provide you with empirical data. Obviously even a piece of string has a finite length (as does the ability to accommodate expected internet traffic) but your question is a bit like asking "how long is a piece of string", isn't it?

Yes, the version of Kunena makes a difference in terms of capability. If you want to interpret capability to mean capacity, I guess you could think of it in those terms. What's your time-scale before you eventually decide to upgrade to K 1.6 ... or do you need more information before you can make that decision?

Thank you for this detailed response. I have yet to install kunena because I am still in the process of figuring out if I can get it to do what I need it to do. The capacity is one question, and as long as 1.6 can handle millions of visitors per month then that's no problem. My other issue is I am trying to find a solution to have free forums and paid restricted forums. I am in the process of finding out how to make this work, and once I have that sorted out I'll make my forum choice. I am hoping I can use Kunena since it is completely integrated with Joomla. Joomla 1.6 looks like it will possibly help with the functions I need in terms of the more granular ACL's so I'm now looking into that, and some subscription managers, to accomplish my goals.

Hi Awkuena,
Thanx for trying kunena, there is more info for you here: www.kunena.org/forum/184-discuss-article...17-reflections#65817

Regards
810 (ps, 1.7 will be 2.0)