[Brad]

Originally Posted by Natch

You think 150 users are overtaxing a virtual server environment? From my experience, most shared server environments go around the 2000 user mark before opening a new box...

Most of these hosts do this to turn a quick profit. Hosting is a slow bussiness, it takes along time to see a good return when you figure what you have to put in to hardware, software, bandwidth, power, + extra unforseen spending.

To cut some costs they will overload the box if they have to, then if a site starts to eat up resources to the point it hurts everyone else you might get asked to 'upgrade' your hosting acount.

Lets not even get into most re-sellers....

@ thread starter:

Can you provide us with some info please? How many posts/threads/users dose your forum have? How many users do you have online at the same time most of the day?

What hacks have you installed?