During the year, our site has progressively slowed down; server responses used to be in the 0.05 sec range (pages loading very quickly). Now, sometimes it's fine, sometimes 5 or 6 seconds.

I was assuming that this was related to the server load (the server I'm on has three times the db's it used to have.

In talking with Arvixe about possibly moving me to a less loaded server, they gave me the following stats

My databaser is 160M large, we typically have 10 members logged in and a few guests (sometimes the guest count shoots up very high, but that's a splintered bot), and our application pool size is 250M

I'm wondering: is this a normal load or am I doing something wrong? Arvixe is saying I need to upgrade my account to have a larger applicatiuon pool; is this right for my level of traffic?

Also, the 'large traffic' they mention I don't particularly see reflected in our member count or currently online members; could it be that this traffic is illegitimate (hacking attempts?) and how could I tell?

Although my forum is slightnly smaller on the members count I do have more posts and a similar number of topics.

could it be the fact he has 105 forums?

I simply afraid that current wide usage of cache and SL + DI aka Reflection somehow contributes to it in some curcumstances. Anyway, it needs investigation.

Yes sir, I'm in the process of narrowing down options for a new host.

RichP714, I'm in the same boat. I want to say the first month was quick and good, no real issues. I have ~700 members with anywhere between ~5 to ~30 online at a time with a database close to ~500MB.

I've been with Arvixe with DNN/YAF since middle May. Things have been getting progressively worse over the last couple months.

You're one step ahead of me, they refuse to acknowledge my concerns/questions. Chat support tells me to email support. When I email support they tell me to consult with Chat support.

My specs are in my signature if you're curious what I'm running.

This one would host it himself if he had Windows Server operating system. I believe my 3MB upload would be sufficient for the amount of users I have, however, I simply can not afford Windows Server for a hobby site.

But yes, hosting it myself would be ideal and would make me very happy. Hell, a host that communicated with me would make me happy right now.

I'm also looking; I think Arvixe has grown too fast over the last year; they used to be fast.

I have more 'members' but about the same online at a time, and about half the db size.

I been there almost a year; very fast at first, but getting flakey

I usually get a good response from them (they've told me that chat support isn't good for very much). I usually open a ticket and chat simultaneously, then refer the chat to the ticket# and ask for update on status. The chat people are really just middle-men who assign your concern to an admin (hopefully)

My major problem is (according to them) that our site has outgrown their personalclass shared hosting. They say the number of gets/puts etc is overloading their 250M app pool, and if I upgraded to businessclass (450M app pool) i wouldn't have the slowdown issues.

They say the slowdwon has nothing to do with the fact that the server I'm on now has triple the dB's it had when I started (server load) but is more about app pool resource limits being exceeded (otherwise they'd have shut my account down for impacting other sites on the server).

In new to IIS and hosting in general, so I don't know if I'm being fed a line or should squeeze more cash out of my wallet

That's what they said, but I can't afford dedicated or virtual; I'm going to upgrade to the 450M pool and see if that snaps performance back to what it was (and fixes my search timeout problem http://forum.yetanotherforum.net/yaf_postsm50621_Search-timeouts-after-certain-MSSQL-size.aspx#post50621 

What about DNN/YAF sites? ;)

I pushed my site over to a new host. So far each page load is sub-second. I'll give it a go for a couple weeks and see how poor it gets.

There isn't much advice here on good/bad hosting; more word-of-mouth "I tried X and they suck"

I think many hosting companies that will do ASP.net don't want to keep the server load light for profit purposes. If you decide to go ahead with this, it may be a wonderful alternative

In the end, I really wouldn't restrict it regarding what you're running. Only that I wouldn't be doing any advertising for this unit other than here. I'm not really into the 'shared hosting' game -- it has a horribly low profit margin when it comes to Windows hosting. You theoretically could run whatever you wanted on it but the server would be streamlined/optimized with a low client count and high availability for .NET applications, etc. Instead of trying to cram 200 sites on it all running YAF, we would be looking more at examining each site's performance as they are added to the server and allocating resources as needed. DNN+YAF really still fits the model because YAF is involved. This unit would really not generate any profit but be there primarily for those who are dealing with a larger or more active YAF forum yet cannot afford the higher pricing not to mention 'don't really need' a whole server to themselves. By rights, if the server is configured properly and monitored, we could probably get between 25 and 50 clients on it and still see good performance from it.