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Pages are taking twice as long to be generated since switching to a setup that has the db on one dedicated box and the php files on the other. It was set up using the hosthame "mydb.myserver.com" instead of "localhost" in the vb config and not using an ip and pages are taking looong to generate and load.

Ok. Heres an update. The database server and file servers were both linked via a public connection and by hostname/servername. Since an idiot at the server company gave us servers in different rooms and not VLAN or cross connected. This was done despite the fact that linking the servers for a db and fileserver setup was indicated on the same ticket.

On top of that the ports were only 10 mbps ports so the pages were taking LOOONG to generate (from like 2 - 10 FULL SECONDS! ) Once the ports were opened to 100 mbps ports the pages generated in like .4 - .7 seconds. This was better and acceptible compared tot he 10mbps scenario but was still not optimal performance.

From there we got the servers moved to the same rack and cross connected with an additional PCI intel NIC and crossover ips. private ips used for vbulletin db hostname in config. The perfomance is much much better than all the above scenarios and better than when we had the db on the same server as the files. The pages load in .1 -.3 seconds and it is speed imporvement is very noticible and it is working great. Thanks erwin, alexi and others.