I'm using ipowerweb as a hosting company. I just downloaded PHPbb to test out the product. Performance seems really bad. Pages in my 5 post forum take a long time to refresh and it's just slow. Anyone out there care to suggest a hosting company / package that they feel is good for hosting forums. Also I assume that once a forum reaches a certain size then it's time to move to a virtual host and then later to a dedicated host. I realize there are no hard and fast rules but would anyone care to suggest some guidelines as to when it might be good to move away from a shared server.

Thanks in advance.

Richard