Just for fun: Installing 2019 Vanilla Forums software on LTS Debian 11 Bullseye in 2025!

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Default Vanilla 3.3 Home Page

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  • imokimok OG

    So ugly

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    How to make it better?

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  • somiksomik OG

    @Not_Oles said:
    How to make it better?

    Themes

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
    edited October 10

    Both my default install (please see above screenshot) and the install of @nwnuyhs seem to be using the same Vanilla default "Keystone" theme. In the default setup the name of the selected theme seems to show at the bottom left of the page.

    My guess is that LES and @nwnuyhs made a few changes in the CSS. Maybe something more was changed as well.

    I'm hoping that @nwnuyhs will kindly comment about what changes he made to the default vanilla-3.3 install to make his install look more like LES.

    Thanks!

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  • somiksomik OG

    Quite easy to get css from LES. As long as you dont use it publicly, it's not even illegal.

    https://lowendspirit.com/applications/dashboard/design/style.css?v=3.0
https://lowendspirit.com/applications/dashboard/design/style-compat.css?v=3.3
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/Signatures/design/signature.css?v=1.6.1
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/IndexPhotos/design/indexphotos.css?v=1.2.2
https://lowendspirit.com/resources/design/vanillicon.css?v=3.3
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/editor/design/editor.css?v=1.8.1
https://lowendspirit.com/applications/vanilla/design/tag.css?v=3.0
https://lowendspirit.com/themes/keystone/design/custom_default.css?v=1.0.2
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/DiscussionPolls/design/discussionpolls.css?v=1.3.6
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/ThankfulPeople2/design/thankfulpeople.css?v=2.2.4
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/QuoteSelection/design/quoteselection.css?v=0.9
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/ThemeChooser/design/shared.css?v=1.0.1
https://lowendspirit.com/plugins/ThemeChooser/design/dark.css?v=1.0.1
https://lowendspirit.com/applications/vanilla/design/spoilers.css?v=3.0

https://lowendspirit.com/resources/fonts/icomoon/social.css
https://lowendspirit.com//plugins/editor/design/wysiwyg.css
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  • nwnuyhsnwnuyhs

    @Not_Oles said: My guess is that LES and @nwnuyhs made a few changes in the CSS. Maybe something more was changed as well.

    I post the custom css here :
    https://lowendai.com/discussion/21/how-to-use-custom-css-in-vanilla-forums-inspired-by-lowendspirit-style/p1?new=1

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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer
    edited October 11

    Excellent! I adjusted the CSS in accordance with @nwnuyhs' above linked description on LowEndAI.com. Now there is what might be described a basic 2019 vanilla-3.3 install which looks somewhat similar to LES and to LowEndAI.

    I think I want to poke around a little more with my terminal. Then I think this little project might be finished, unless someone wants something more?

    Sincere thanks to @nwnuyhs for being so super helpful and friendly! :star: :star: <3 <3 :star: :star:

    I hope everyone gets the servers they want!

  • somiksomik OG

    @Not_Oles said:
    Excellent! I adjusted the CSS in accordance with @nwnuyhs' above linked description on LowEndAI.com. Now there is what might be described a basic 2019 vanilla-3.3 install which looks somewhat similar to LES and to LowEndAI.

    I think I want to poke around a little more with my terminal. Then I think this little project might be finished, unless someone wants something more?

    Sincere thanks to @nwnuyhs for being so super helpful and friendly! :star: :star: <3 <3 :star: :star:

    Try the latest dockerized build and compare between the two: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-docker

    Install docker with composer:
    https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/

    Clone the repo

    git clone https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-docker.git

    Go into the cloned directory and build the images:

    docker compose build

    Once the build is done, start up the containers:

    docker compose up -d

    The vanilla forum should be running on port 80 of your server.

    If you already have nginx or something else installed and want to make it run on a different port (other then 80), edit the docker-compose.yml file, line 78:
    https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-docker/blob/17afb06520b31fb2fe514bad6cfd880a1a9f3b87/docker-compose.yml#L78

    Change the 80 to any number you like, 8888 for example:

            ports:
            - "8888:80"
            - "8080:8080"
            - "443:443"
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  • Not_OlesNot_Oles Hosting ProviderContent Writer

    Maybe someone might be interested in the yabs for the €3.00/month Upcloud VPS on which this thread's project is running. Please see also https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/219926/#Comment_219926 for more details on the VPS.

    root@debian-1cpu-1gb-us-chi1:~# curl -sL yabs.sh | bash
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2025-04-20                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Sat Oct 11 01:31:55 UTC 2025

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 3 days, 4 hours, 6 minutes
Processor  : AMD EPYC 7542 32-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2894.560 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 864.3 MiB
Swap       : 2.0 GiB
Disk       : 9.8 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-32-amd64
VM Type    : KVM
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
---------------------------------
ISP        : UpCloud USA Inc
ASN        : AS25697 UpCloud USA Inc
Host       : UpCloud Chicago Inc
Location   : Chicago, Illinois (IL)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/vda2):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 39.91 MB/s    (9.9k) | 409.00 MB/s   (6.3k)
Write      | 40.01 MB/s   (10.0k) | 411.15 MB/s   (6.4k)
Total      | 79.92 MB/s   (19.9k) | 820.16 MB/s  (12.8k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 391.58 MB/s    (764) | 388.21 MB/s    (379)
Write      | 412.38 MB/s    (805) | 414.06 MB/s    (404)
Total      | 803.96 MB/s   (1.5k) | 802.27 MB/s    (783)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.32 Gbits/sec  | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 86.9 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 2.38 Gbits/sec  | 1.10 Gbits/sec  | 95.2 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | busy            | 949 Mbits/sec   | 184 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 757 Mbits/sec   | 781 Mbits/sec   | 223 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 2.17 Gbits/sec  | 1.14 Gbits/sec  | 53.0 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 9.26 Gbits/sec  | 1.16 Gbits/sec  | 17.8 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.43 Gbits/sec  | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 128 ms         

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping           
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----           
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 1.78 Gbits/sec  | 1.11 Gbits/sec  | 86.2 ms        
Eranium         | Amsterdam, NL (100G)      | 2.02 Gbits/sec  | 1.11 Gbits/sec  | 94.0 ms        
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 937 Mbits/sec   | 944 Mbits/sec   | 183 ms         
Leaseweb        | Singapore, SG (10G)       | 748 Mbits/sec   | 771 Mbits/sec   | 222 ms         
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 1.46 Gbits/sec  | 1.14 Gbits/sec  | 51.9 ms        
Leaseweb        | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 9.14 Gbits/sec  | 1.15 Gbits/sec  | 17.3 ms        
Edgoo           | Sao Paulo, BR (1G)        | 1.46 Gbits/sec  | 1.09 Gbits/sec  | 127 ms         

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 958                           
Multi Core      | 644                           
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/14385259

YABS completed in 22 min 0 sec
root@debian-1cpu-1gb-us-chi1:~#

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