vbulletin uses a lot of resources? (From my host)

[John Diver]

vBulletin is known for using large amounts of resources, what I can recommend for you to do is either tweak vBulletin itself so it's not as memory intensive or move it to a VPS. We only allow shared users to use 64MB of memory which with vBulletin and MySQL running you will likely hit that limit fairly quick.

I thought vB wouldn't use much, especially for a new forum.

[beishe8]

I thought vB wouldn't use much, especially for a new forum.

Isn't it the CMS which is using much?

[Mark.B]

Find a better host urgently.

I myself got tired of rubbish hosts claiming vBulletin is "resource hungry". It isn't.

I ran my vB site for years on a £5 a month shared hosting platform. I only moved to a VPS solution because the site itself outgrew it in terms of traffic and database size.

[ddrager]

At the beginning it won't be that bad, but vBulletin does prefer it when MySQL is running with lots of cache, which takes up memory as your DB grows.