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It's always a good idea to monitor everything (the more information you have, the better in my opinion).

This is a plug-in I wrote years ago from vBulletin 3.6 that still works fine for vBulletin 4. It gives you a quick and easy way to make sure your Memcached server(s) are working properly. Beyond the normal stats it supplies, it also performs a realtime latency test for each of your servers so you can see if one might be working, but slow.

To have Memcached stats show on your main AdminCP screen, create a plug-in at the admin_index_main3 hook location with the following code (obviously this will only work if you use Memcache as your vBulletin datastore): ...

A few months ago Google came out with a nice function for Google Analytics that allows website publishers to do the analytics ...

Putting secondary vBulletin products on their own sub-domain (like we do here) turned out to be much simpler than I anticipated. Of course, I say that now after I spent countless hours working on methods that ultimately didn't work in the end for one reason or another.

For this method, you need to be running the Apache web server and have the ability to define mod_rewrite rules for it.

My example is specifically for vBulletin blogs, but the same idea could be applied to any vBulletin module (like CMS). ...