HELP PLSE! Killing server!

Definitely change web hosts. If you are having this much trouble with your forum, its due to your hosting company and not the forum itself. I pay a nice amount for hosting a month, but I have had very little trouble with my forum and any trouble I had, my hosting company worked with me to resolve it. They never asked me to kills certain apps or that I can't run certain apps, they were very proactive in helping me keep my forum running smoothly.

A change of hosts will do you good and if you expect a huge growth of your forums, no one better than to host it with borg since this is probably the biggest wwg forum out there and if his servers can keep this forum running smoothly and fast, your's should experience no problems at all.

This forum is tiny, we have forums on our systems that get over 1000 posts per day.

I've also heard from quite a few people who run Web Wiz Forums and have between 200 and 500 active users and nearing a million posts.

Wow, what a cool site! I've not had little ones for many years now (they are 22 and 25) but that's a neat design, and seems to be quite popular!

OK, our current host removed the support for asp.net from our service and now things have really settled down. The forum is faster, we don't get bumped off (logged out) and the count of current users is accurate!
He states it will not only not be a problem in the future should we need asp.net back, but that it is actually much better behaved, uses less memory and reduces server load, and that asp.net keeps session info in the database to further reduce load. In fact, he seemed to recommend that. He's stating that if the forums were asp.net based, we'd be better off performance and service-wise.
So for now....... we've settled down and are much faster and stable and wow, are we growing! And heavily used.
I still am somehow leaning toward switching hosts - and if so, would probably be to "here" - it just makes sense.

I'd still, however, like to see examples of what others are running the wwf forums and how many members, posts, etc. so I'd get a feel for things.

I would certainly say change web host ASAP.

The web host in question offers 400Gig data transfer, unlimited SQL Server, etc. for very little money. This business model would be impossible to sustain. So they have to find other ways to limit that make these very generous levels impossible to ever reach.

What this web host is doing is to give each sites it's own application pool, so the first time the database is connected to, an email sent from your site, an upoad takes places, etc. the driver for that needs to be loaded into memory. IIS then keeps this driver in memory incase it's needed again to speed up performance. Add to this another 10KB per user, the amount of memory your site uses soon gets very high.

By doing it the way your web host is, it means that you would be lucky to run any ASP, or ASP.NET web site on their system and have more than 100 visitors per day using around 5,000Gig per month. No were near the unrealistic figures that they give in their advertising speel.

When you signup to a web host that appears to be giving allot more for your money, check the small print as often this is just advertising spin to get you to bite and not what you are really getting.