fwiw, i had problems with the private messaging mod and a few indexes helped immensely. i don't remember offhand what indexes were needed, but it brought my ~100k pv/day (mostly punbb) site to a screeching halt, and the fixes were obvious from logged slow queries.

i also recently had to deal with rapid growth, and setting up nginx as a static proxy to apache (i may move to using it fulltime w/ fcgi) helped a lot.

another mod that needed help was the Reputation mod. sure would be nice if these were coded with a bit more smarts.

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My first meddling with PunBB just went live at http://bmxmuseum.com/

Whenever you enter a Bike in the database with my custom CMS, it also posts it in a PunBB forum -- and if the user edits the bike, it will regenerate the first post in the topic to reflect the changes.

Haven't changed the Sulfur much as it already matched the site's color scheme pretty well, but I do plan on changing it around a bit with time.

PunBB was a breeze to work with.. Thanks for the great software!