WickedFire running slow?

I don't mean to sound like an idiot, but are there paid memberships here, I have looked but I cannot find anything... I wouldn't mind signing up...

Premium membership is invite only and you can't find the sign up link anywhere. You need to be invited by an existing premium member. In other words, he has to recommend you to Jon or Stanley or Brandon.
 


Brandon.. Do you guys still have plans to move to VB4 or are the vb3 mods holding you back.. ?

Yes, we are still planning on moving to VB4. We've got most of the mods worked out, just need to get the new skin looking tight. We've been making some hardware changes as well, thus...the speed.

We are going to be rolling out quite a bit over the next few months, should be pretty cool.
 
this brings me to a question, is wf making use of only one db for all its members? Or are all the members bifurcated onto different servers? A friend of mine was asking about whether big websites made use of only a single db? Or were there many db's handling smaller amount of the load?
Finally we are back to business, but I was wondering whether i could get an ansewr to this above question