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Originally Posted by TripMaster
This new forum I'm going to be running could be having 200 or so users browsing at one time with no problems. IF it goes well, could have more (at that point of course I'd consider either a semi or fully dedicated server if the funding allows  ).
 in advance for some insight. |
200 concurrent users is nothing on a vb forum and if you're having slowdowns at any host for this (not to mention time-consistent slowdowns), it's almost certainly the hacks you've installed and has nothing whatsoever to do with your hosting.
if you add the debug command in your config file, you can see what queries are running on your install and get some idea of what might be slowing you down. add this line to your config.php in your vb include folder.
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$config['Misc']['debug'] = true;
your forum folks will see it, so it's up to you if you want to go offline to do it. just remove it when you find out what you need to know. shoutboxes, if you have them, are pretty notorius for server load. you sound like a hack-happy kind of guy, so you might end up having to give up some of the more extraneous ones if you want good performance.
anywho, good luck. peace out.