Cookies and HTTP Header Options
 

Hi.

i have my session timeout set to 1800 sec in this part of the vBulletin Options.

when my forum gets over 500 members online, the page loads become really bad.

we plan on going quad core soon with plenty of memory, but was wondering something...

does a member who is simply online cause lag or is it only when members are actually browsing?

i was considering reducing the session timout setting.

we r also using Dismounted's vBanonymizer and it is working great [thanks!]....does this cause extra load when it redirects?

i'm sure archiving is an issue for us too with so many old posts that members r going through.

cheers. :)

You only "load" on the server when someone requests something from the server - that is, only on page loads, media streams, etc. When you are looking at the page - the server doesn't know it, and it doesn't care, because it's already responded to the request.
Running any sort of script (be it HTML, JS, PHP, etc.) will put some load on the server - even if it is small - it's still there. But to answer the general "gist" of your question, no, the page does not put any considerable load on your server.