Forums running very slow?

[Mudbug]

what's troubling me is that with this being a fairly new site, and people are coming and doing their initial 15 second preview look before coming back later and spending "quality time" they're getting irritated by the load times and not making round 2.

But just for the record, I'll repeat that a vbulletin site with this minor little traffic load on it shouldn't run this slow, unless it's being hosted on ancient equipment fed out by an insufficient bandwidth pipe. I'm used to MUCH heavier forum usage and watching things scream right along.

I'm trying to do my part and flesh out the forums a bit with topics people can feel free to comment on and get involved, but am getting frustrated with the speed myself. I have to assume new folks have the same reaction.