i looked into ways to reduce vbpager and vbshout's affect on the server load, cos i really dont want to uninstall them. it's gone down and now doesn't go over 3.00, and is usually less than that-so it's a lot better. i know from what i've read here that that's still a bit high, but hell, it's better than my original numbers

my host hasn't contacted me *knock on wood*, and hopefully they won't. if worse comes to worse i'll get rid of vbshout first-i really like vb pager, and so do my members.