Nice work... congratulations!
What snooks said. Running a forum with earning money as your goal will never work out. You need to be dedicated to pull it out. Running a forum is...
Running a forum with the intent of making money will never work out. Don't think about money when you run a forum, the money will just come.
Optimizing the backend and removing tables in templates would be a good start. Easier said than done though... ^_^
Seems like normal speed. You might want to look at reducing image sizes. They can feel sluggish if there are a lot of them on a page.
Does it happen for long periods of time or just for a few minutes/hours? It might be just maintenance scripts running (ie. logrotate, logwatch,...
Why not just remove their permissions? Compiling php can slow it down.
You can't go wrong with Softlayer. :)
Have you tried hosting OpenX on your own server? Or what avermat said...
... and you will still need to change the ad containers in your template to match the new ad sizes.
Western Union you get your payment in cash and not wait for bank clearing. But I think in some countries there is a maximum limit. Just check it...
Wow! Congratulations and keep it up. It's a challenge maintaining high earnings with AdSense. ^_^
Yes but not as much as I hoped. Still trying to figure out ways to increase earnings. ^_^
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