can you tell me which is faster

which is faster idealbb or aspplayground
they said that they are faster from all other forum in ASP
what can you say about this

this is an interesting question.. what do you expect me to say?

Well, from a programmer' s point of view, it depends on your hardware. If you have a dedicated server, then all forums you can possibly find should run at somewhat similiar speed (very small differences), but if you don' t want to spend on expensive hosts (like dedicated server or semi-dedicated server like MaximumASP), then ours has to be the fastest.

Our software even runs on Readyhosting with full speed, and all I can say is our forum does not rely on ADO paging nor temporary table nor cursor. Those are the slowest things that can ever happen to SQL based application. Our system uses only pure T-SQL + caching for fastest data extraction and presentation. The techniques I implemented address to the rate-limiting step in an forum application => database, and nothing other than speeding up db access can really make your forum run faster. Component? No-No for such an application (what is the logic behind this? Speed up? It is not on database!).

You would want at least some customizibility, wouldn' t you? So having some sort of hard to customize component will not help you here either.

So what do you say?