mattate

Hi! Nice to meet you too! We are pretty big, not as big as slickdeals though, based on your numbers we probably see maybe 75% of the traffic that you have.

We have some nice caching that mitigates spikes, since most spikes are from users who are not logged in, we can cache more aggressively and still keep a very nice and dynamic experience for members (who are contributing to the site).

Hi I am the tech guy behind hotukdeals, the biggest deal site in the UK and mydealz the biggest deal site in Germany.

We have actually moved away from vbulletin as it gives us a lot more flexibility to make the community what we envision it should be, instead of constantly fighting and compromising because of limitations of vb code.

We moved away I think 4 years ago and I have to say it was probably the best decision I've made as a Dev (even though I was green at the time and there were a lot of initial issues)

Scaling actually became much easier after the switch, and I sleep much easier now feeling confident the site will stay up if there is a morning rush. In conversations about new features the word vbulletin never come up as well.