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Originally Posted by TacticalNuke

This is interesting because I recently switched from a shared server to a VPS server with a new host. With my old host, I was getting page load times of about 1.5-2 seconds with this kind of traffic. Now I'm at 3.0 seconds and that's no good at all, especially because ostensibly this VPS should have significantly more resources available.

There are two types of cronjobs out there; one is at the system level that the server actually does, and one is at PHP's level which is done when a page is loaded. Most of these are small and are just cleanup tasks, but a modification you installed recently could be the culprit, or your VPS is just not up to par for it. Your host isn't going to be able to help you with this issue most likely though other than looking at logs; most don't know vBulletin and aren't trained in it, therefore have no idea what it is or if they do, don't know it's inner workings. In some cases if you purchased a low-end VPS you get less power - I found this out the hard way. With most shared servers while you're sharing the resources, they are significantly more powerful servers and aren't segmented like VPSes are, therefore you get more resources if you're with a trustworthy provider. Of course, not saying VPSes aren't powerful as if you're with a good provider they can be an indispensable alternative to dedicated servers.