[Paul M]

Originally Posted by TECK

Actually, since they are staff, it should be their obligation to release on a regular basis high performance hacks, tutorials, examples of more robust vBulletin code...

Staff do not have such an obigation, nor should they. This is a site run by volunteers.

Originally Posted by TECK

Into my eyes, a decent hack would be for example.. executing 5 queries less on every vBulletin page. Yes it can be done and it's very easy on top of that... it does involve only 2 small edits to the vBulletin files. You give me a good reason why I should give that for free to people, instead of charging at least $1,000.00 per client project... and I will do it.

I wouldn't pay you $10 for such a mod. Too many people get fixated on reducing queries for no good reason. The number of queries is rarely a problem (unless it runs in to very high numbers), it is the nature of them that matters. One poor select (full table scan) can cripple a server, while 100 simple selects using indexes will barely make it flicker.