To go a bit further, for the ones slating us and telling that their "hosting" can handle forums very well, i'll answer that they have to compare what can be compared. Firstly, their forum is possibly not as busy as this one. Then, it possibly does not have a database as heavy as this one (800 mb and 1 500 000 posts approx.) Then, to finish, they need to know that 95% of the hostings supplied by ISPs are limited to 5 simultaneous MySQL connections... so how could they handle 57 average per seconds ?