I can't wait until vb3 comes out...18 is quite alot for a shared hosting account.

Well if thats alot of that you can't really run the vB. Very rarely does it go under if I'm not mistaken.

I can run it, and I do run it, but I still think it can be optimized, which apparently the makers of B feel it can be as well, since they are cutting down queries for vb3.

There are limitations to hosting your board on a shared hosting account anyway, while it may not have anything do with the queries, it can effect you board depending on the other users on the server. To be honest 18 queries is not much at all, up to 24 it not that much.

Once I installed a hack it went up to 74 queries. Over 30 I'd say would be a bit of a worry. Over 50 a worry.

Well, you may feel that it is not very many queries, but Jelsoft is nonetheless decreasing the number of queries for their upcoming software, which leads me to believe I am obiously not the only one who thinks less queries is better.

Of course it's better. :)

less is better :). it will always be, however you can get up to a certain amount of queries and still be ok, i think i have 28 - 30 on my forum home as of now.

also, you do not need to go into debug mode to see the amount of queries. It was disabled by default in vB 2.2.6 because it left open a big hole that would allow hackers to get in quite easyly.

you can look over at vB.org, they have a hack that will show you the # of queries on anypage in a safe matter.