I’ll be releasing a chess network here on http://www.lasvegaschessclub.org for Las Vegas residents shortly.
I can’t say I’m much of a server guru, but what I have found I’ve documented here:
Improving Performance
I’d appreciate it if you’d add anything you find to that page for others to benefit from.
Thanks for the comments guys….I just wanted to know if I was going to have any problems as the network grew. I am currently on a VPS with I think 1280 MB RAM. My install of buddypress never takes more than a half a second to run the queries so it sounds like I’m getting good times…though I just have a handful of beta testers right now.
I may try the multi-db plugin, but it seems that the problems that I’ve been having over the last couple of days are due to my host and not my buddypress install…my sites have all been down for the last 4 hours.
One last question for jedbarish or anyone else who wants to contribute…can you explain why it is best to run MySQL from a different server than the WPMU install?
yeah, i did the troubleshooting to find the problem like you wanted burtadsit….and I know the issue, but I did not write Buddypress so I don’t know why the error is happening. Now that I know the EXACT issue I just need some help fixing the actual problem.
For invite system you can use my plug-in: InviteFriends.
It is available on buddypress-it or buddypressDev
you can use my plug-in InviteFriends. It is available on buddypress-it or buddypresDev.
I am developin it and i will release new versione next week with Facebook Importer.
Send me a feedback.
you can try my plug in to invite friends. I don’t use openinviter because it use a scraper to get friends, while use API of provider. It is aviable on buddypress-it and buddypressdev.
hi, you can try and download the invite friends plug-in. It is aviable on buddypress-it and buddypressDev.
you can try and download the invite friends plug in form buddypress-it and buddypressDev.
Best way to operate a high traffic wpmu for buddypress by having two servers to run separate for mysql and wpmu/buddypress. I learned that Multi-DB 2.7 beta came out but only for WPMU 2.7 without Buddypress. It had some problem with Buddypress so they need to start from scratch for Buddypress. I wanted to know about HyperDB’s compatible using WPMU/Buddypress.
Will it be enough for a dedicated server of 2GB RAM with 2x Processors for MYSQL only and 4x Processors with 8GB or 16GB RAM for WPMU/Buddypress?
It would be nice for Andy or a guru here to give us an advice to have a start up for two servers or more to expand as much it grows later on. Thanks! Looking forward to the final release on Feb 12th.
WPMU 2.7 and Buddypress I am running from svn
Let me know what you guys think…it’s a community newspaper, social network, blogging platform, still in beta.
http://ilovewestdavis.com
i don’t know, in my buddypress (http://wikiroma.it/index.php) the search and letter search work for users with the “full name” (not the username) filled. Sorry
to be found a member must:
fill the “full name” of buddypress profile, not only the wpmu username, or he should have done some login or activity after the bp installation.
Your “old” wmpu members are considered inactive until they fill the full name or do something.
Hm.. But in buddypress demo it works fine so where is the problem?
@burtadsit,
Thanks for your post. My files are already exactly as you suggested; I paid careful attention in the install instructions.
I already activated the bp home theme in the WPMU backend.
I think what’s happening is a function needs to be changed to reflect the new location of buddypress-home and member-themes.
In the meantime, I’ve figured out a workaround.
From what I can gather this thread is about a configuration problem. This is how to install the two themes.
1) From the distribution zip or trunk move the folder /buddypress-theme/buddypress-home to the folder /wp-content/themes. You wind up with the structure /wp-content/themes/buddypress-home
2) Move the folder /buddypress-theme/member-themes to the folder /wp-content. Ending up with the structure /wp-content/member-themes.
If you want to use the bp home theme then you need to activate that in wpmu backend. You will never see the member theme as a possible candidate to activate.
i think the problem is given by divs positioned using distances from margin left or right. And so when you resize the window, the distance from margins change, and you shall refresh the page to correctly rebuild the layout.
Maybe, you just need to rewrite css code for left, center, right, narrow, wide columns and it’not a big pain.
yes, you have that problem in the original buddypress demo too. There is something wrong in stylesheets, but honestly i think it’s a pain to rewrite all stylesheets of buddypress: they are a lot!
Allright.. I centered buddypress and the columns.
What really fucks me up is Internet Explorer which shows avatars and infos on wrong places when making window smaller. Firefox is perfect.
Do you know how to fix that? Should i give body width in percent or pixels? I tried both but both were causing problems on IE same as for the columns.
Help me ^^
Andy I’ve already done this with realfam. See: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1018
This is just a new thread for the same situation.
I too am currently evaluating BuddyPress, for use in a University (so in 5 years we’ll be looking @ roughly 30.000 blogs). My experience so far is that BP needs a lot of queries to load the page.
Has anyone got any experience on finetuning linux, apache php and mysql for a site like this (memory, caching, network etc)? Needless to say i’ll be running a dedicated machine for this site (and got root access).
I’d love some configuration recommendations, specifically on proxy/caching strategies, backup and clustering.
did this, even used clean install of WPMU and new mySQL database……. same issue. something about the beta2 of BP does not like me inserting this php script into the header.
Everything works fine until I put this script into the header. I can either have the script and WPMU or Buddypress and WPMU…but not the script and Buddypress. They really have issues with each other, worked fine on BP Beta 1, WPMU 2.6.
This is the second time I have Reinstalled all this from scratch, and that’s not fixing it.
I will go out on a limb to say that what looks like a bug at first is often times just normal user error.
I consider myself a seasoned PHP/SQL/Linux/WordPress/bbPress veteran, and to be honest it took me installing and reinstalling MU/BuddyPress 4 times before I was able to follow the instructions correctly. Each time I would have sworn on my undead mothers grave that I did everything right, but alas…
So a tip to you all, if it isn’t working, it just might be because of something you don’t know you didn’t do… 
I am experiencing the same issue, and it seems like it is less about which plug in, and more about how many.
I’ve gone through and added/removed all of the buddy press components, and as soon as I have more than about 5 of them, I get 500 errors no matter what page it tries to load.
The fix for me was to make a file named php.ini, and within that file put:
memory=20MB
…and upload it to the wp-admin folder.
Basically 1and1’s PHP limit is probably set to like 8mb or 16mb, and BuddyPress is just too big for those britches. Of course, you can increase your memory size to whatever makes it work for you, but 20MB should be plenty.
I also put:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
…in my .htaccess file at the root directory to make sure 1and1 knew to give it php5 and not the 4 that it tries to give by default. Silly 1and1…
