I'm on a virtual private server now which is a Quad Xeon 2.4 Ghz server with 512 MB standard RAM burstable to 2 GB for my account. I seem to be running into performance issues on this shared server, where server load runs up to 3 or 4 regularly (almost never occured on my previous server).
Is a P4 3.0 Ghz dedicated box sufficient to run a threads 6.4 with a community of 7,000 users (only 30-40 active simultaneously at peak/ 15-20 regular)? Or should I look for a Dual Xeon server? (The P4 is only about $60 cheaper per month.)
The thing is, I just moved to this new server and am disappointed by the performance. So I don't want to have to move again anytime soon after choosing a dedicated server. I run about 2 dozen other sites on the server. Half the traffic I generate comes from the forums, the other half from a large site that gets 1-1.5 million page views/month (50-60 GB traffic). The threads forum gets about the same on its own.
Thanks for any assistance... for instance, what does this forum run on? (Yup, I've tuned mysql, and it's helped some... but I don't think it's helped enough...)
