Hi everyone,

In the past couple of weeks I've spend many hours of study on optimizing apache/mysql/php scripts to get them at optimal performance.
I've applied many updates on the server software as well as many of the code on FF which resulted in major speed advantage on the server.
Below a list of all recent updates to the server and website.

Updated opcode cache to it's latest version.
Updated mysql table structure to optimize them to use less space and serve data faster.
Added multiple indexes on mysql tables to speedup queries to the mysql server.
Removed php script which removed blank lines and comments from the templates because the procedure to remove the data costs more server resources then actually serving it.
Tweaked apache settings, fine tuned on available memory. Having enough but not too many spare servers running. And killing unused apache processing faster to prevent memory leaks.
Added new compression system which sends compressed data to the client when possible. This system works beside normal gzip compression making data even smaller :-P.
Added self made script that stores regulary used data directly into the memory to make it faster available.
Adjusted vbulletin setting to keep a cached copy of new threads for a large period of time to make them display faster.
Removed all htaccess files and moved them directly into the apache config to prevent loading htaccess variables on each http requests.
Finished anti http flood security script which prevents small flood/moron attacks. You can test the security script by rapidly refreshing 1 page. (be aware that everything is logged and the system automaticly add your hostname to our banlist when abuse is detected to often).
Finished DDoS protection on apache level which should prevent most distributed denial of service attacks and all small flood/moron attacks.Above are all the major updates I've made in the past couple of weeks, additional minor updates where also made but not listed.
All these updates where made with days between them so no major speedup was noticeable but everything together made the server a lot faster.
After some benchmarks I learned the updates server pages 5 to 8 times faster then before the updates!

Kindest Regards,
MainFrame

I do confirm the speed improments, even when i login !
Now you can atach a file faster then never.

Keep the good work !

Thank you for the new improvements !

Faster and faster !