The Vbulletin integrated route was far too server intensive for my needs so I switched to developing a static page articles system and its a good thing I did because even my worst days I'm serving well above 200k pages a day now. the classic DB driven site takes a ton of power to serve properly so by putting various static pagefile systems in place I can cache any section I want and only do the queries every so often.
Currently I'm using a dual Xeon 2.8 with 2Gb RAM and the loads are so nice and low that it might be months before I have to upgrade again.
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