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I decided to give Xcache a try. As far as I can see, it is working quite well, and the start page on PunBB's admin panel detects that Xcache is being used. I can only assume from this, without looking at the code, that PunBB is setup to only allow static stuff to be cached by Xcache.

I personally have no patience for the lazy. It's one thing to just not know any better because you're not computer savvy and didn't have a knowledgeable person to teach you (hence my suggested message), but it's another thing for the well informed to stick to outdated and insecure technology.

And people shouldn't be viewing my site at work anyway. My site has no bearing on their jobs. They should be doing their jobs at their jobs. Let them view my site at home when they aren't working, when they have some control over what browser they use.

I hand-coded the HTML for my main site. I am a total newb with HTML and CSS, and still had it validate against W3C's validation pages -- as HTML 4.01 Strict. Not one drop of browser-specific code (except to display the warning to IE users) can be found. And it displays perfectly in three browsers: Firefox, Chrome, and Konqueror with it's severely outdated KHTML engine. I haven't tried it in any others. At least two of those browsers work on the "Big Three" Operating Systems. I'm not trying to brag (far from it), I just have to wander why, with such a track record, should I bother with archaeic outdate insecure softwares like IE?

Heck, I'm half considering learning PHP just to patch IE support completely out of PunBB. If people see my warning and still want to use IE, not my problem. I told them there could be problems with IE, and they have every right to install a different browser on their own computers at home, so if they have problems, oh well.

I can't make the developers to drop IE support, but it would still be nice IMO

Have you cleared the browser cache recently? I'm not sure how to do that in IE, but I see similar problems on various sites if the browser cache gets clogged.

You can have PunBB handle the registration, then integrate PunBB's login with your main site. Click the search field at the top of this forum, and you'll be surprised how many results it gives you for just the word "login".

Though if you already have lots of users registered outside of PunBB on your main site, that would provide an inconvenience for everybody.

Provided that the extension works correctly, you shouldn't need to manually delete the files. It doesn't hurt to try, just to be safe

Provided that the config.php is correct (correct db info, correct base_url, correct cookie settings), the only other thing I can suggest is double checking the settings for your server daemon, try to get them as close as possible to what they were before, taking into account whatever settings must be changed for your new server. Perhaps post notice asking users at home to clear their browser caches, just to be safe. It might add a bit of extra stress to your server while your regular visitor's browsers rebuild their caches, but that's only temporary.

I'm using nginx, so .htaccess won't work for me

I think .htaccess is Apache only, anyways.

I already have client-side cache'ing of images/css/js files, with the expiration set to "Max" so it stays there until the visitors clear their browser caches. I think I have more image file types being cached that you do.

I've already done research on how to optimize my speed and bandwidth, and the only thing I'm stuck on is if I can use a PHP accelerator with PunBB. I've read that those can mess with dynamic content, I'm just not sure if PunBB is too dynamic, or if there's some part that I can try to "accelerate".

Try clearing the contents of the cache directory in your forum root. I know there's at least one file in there that should have your forum's (cached) user stats in there, so deleting those files will force PunBB to regenerate them with "fresh" data".

I don't think IE support (any version) should even be a remote priority. I've heard all too often that it always seems full of security issues.

Personally, I plan to have my web server redirect anyone who visits my site in IE to a page saying something like:

Internet Explorer has many known security flaws that could allow your account on this site to be compromised. You should try another more secure browser, such as Firefox. To proceed anyways, without switching browsers, click here.

I think whoever runs that site has some sort of config error, because that points to a blank page, even after I remove the ?spkEn part, then try again without the /punbb/ part.