For those who are interested: We currently have a sweetheart deal on colocation for the server. Unfortunately, it doesn't include a ton of bandwidth (1.5 megabits capped). We occasionally fill the pipe during peak usage periods which results in slowness when browsing.
Photon and I are working towards offloading all of the static content (images, CSS, javascript, etc.) to other servers (a content distribution network) in order to allow the main server to just serve the php generated forum html. This should allow us to double the number of concurrent users before slowness occurs due to network congestion.
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