phpBB 3 optimization

Question

phpBB

The forum is spinning on phpBB 3, there are about 100,000 messages, the size of the database now is 300 megabytes.

There are about 130 requests at a time on the main page of the forum, ~70 in the category sections.

How to optimize it? I did not find caching plugins on the go, only some kind of handicraft way of fastening memcached.

UPD: put APC, feel better. But I'm looking for a solution on the phpBB side, to reduce the number of requests.

Answer 1

After a close acquaintance with the phpBB code, I can advise you to simply go to another forum :)
Or take a hatchet and cut down all sorts of baubles and lotions directly cutting off pieces of code ...
The architecture of phpBB is initially clumsy, or rather, I would even say it is absent at all ...
phpBB is plaintext- coding :)
In general, the most practical advice is to switch to vBul, I don’t know about speed (but large projects like forum.xda-developers, forums.devshed.com work on it), but the architecture in it is clearly visible :)

Answer 2

Where are the brakes from? php 5.3 + memcached sessions + XCache - everything flies.
Total Posts: 298395 | Threads: 9691 | Users: 2792 - the base weighs somewhere under a gig.
Attendance, though not very high, on average no more than 5 thousand requests per day.

Answer 3

Remove unnecessary mods from the forum and other crap.