[KMxRetro]

Everyone is telling you the same thing.

There is no way in hell that 100 hacks are being used by 584 members. Let alone 200. You need to stop "being a sucker for new toys" and run your site as if you want people to come back. Your forum index looks like you've taken every possible thing you could ever use and just gone "that'll do" and thrown it in.

I don't even know what your site is about.

A few pointers:-
- REMOVE SOME DAMN HACKS. You don't need 200. I have twice as many members, and they don't need 200 hacks.

- REMOVE some forums. You have SIXTY ONE forums - and that isn't counting subforums. Of course your server load is going to be high. I'm no vBulletin expert, but I'm assuming that would create at least a few extra queries. For example, do you really need a forum for each different type of Pay TV hack? If you only have like 10 posts in five related forums, stick them together and have 50 in one. It looks busier, which will draw more people in.

- Your page is taking 9.8 seconds to be GENERATED. Not downloaded. Not displayed, but generated. That's 9.8 seconds that I have to wait before your page even starts to display in my browser. If I wasn't purposefully trying to check your site out so I could help you out, I would have left by then.

In short dude, your attitude pretty much bites in this topic. You say "which are the most server intensive hacks?", everyone says "you have a gazillion hacks, no wonder...", you say "yes, but which ones are the most server intensive?"

The answer is simple. It isn't the quality of the hacks, or the amount of resources that each one uses, its the fact that you have 200 hacks that you don't need. Your site could easily run without ANY hacks other than the portal mod. Do yourself a favour and listen to these good people.

And I pray that you aren't using a shared host. Think of the other customers who are trying to run their site and are getting massive delays thanks to your love of "toys"...you wouldn't like it. Be responsible.