[captainron19]

Thanks guys. At what point did you choose to move to a dedicated server? (If you werent already at one). At what amount of "users online" did you find your board system to slow down?

I have 3 forums going now. The largest has 36K posts but only 250 members or so and most ever online was 172 (but I think most of them were due to the bots)

My new forum hopefully will take off and be much larger that is why I am "Planning ahead" and getting ready.

I did notice my hosting ocmpany offers 2 services for this and would appreciate any feedback...

They offer dedicated servers starting at $129 a month and they also offer virtual private servers starting at $49 a month.

Any opinions or comments?

The cheaper VPS had the following features for $49 a month....

Hosted Sites: Ideal for 1 busy website and up to 9 pointed domains.
Disk Space: 20 GB
Data Transfer: 1 TB
Memory: 128MB minimum, Burstable up to 1GB
Control Panels
Plesk™ 8 for Linux Virtuozzo™ Power Panel
10 Domains License
IP Address: Includes 1 IP
Software Installed:
RedHat Fedora Core 4 OS, Apache Web Server 2.0
PHP 5.0.4
MySQL 4.1.14