Put vBulletin in HTML Instead of PHP?

[Daniel Thomas]

<i>(If they are needed, I don't have server specs at the moment, I'm waiting for the account holder to get me that information)</i>

Okay, we've been having some serious speed issues for over a year now and I apologize if I posted this in the wrong area.

Our forum, is going God awful slow. We're on a dedicated hosting plan from the Planet but here for the last year or more, the forum itself has been slow, and the server was optimized about a week ago by the Planets technical staff and it literally appears to be even worse now.

It's not like our forum is being overwhelmed though, about two years ago, and further back, we were a bustling quick loading forum, we had hundreds of users on the forum at one time, so I know we should be able to handle our current capacity relatively easily.

We've optimized vBulletin too, limited the search engine bots, and I disabled all the modifications to see if they were causing the slow loading times, no dice there either.

If anybody cares to check, you can go to pwmforums.com and see how slow it is, then go to pwmania.com (the main site) and see how relatively fast it is. We have about 5 sites hosted on the server, with the PWM site being by far the largest, but its been like that ever since we bought the server, probably 3-4 years ago.

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Okay, I went through that long story to ask this question. I've seen other forums that have apparently turned their forum into .html format and doing away with the .php, which I feel may be why the forum, and not the sites, is slow. So...any advice on how I could turn our forum into the .html formats to see if it helps improve our loading times.