Couldn't agree more. I seem to spend half my time these days optimising servers for friends etc and I'm not suprised to hear the host recommended a new server to him, that seems to happen all too often these days. While I can understand why the host would do this for business reasons, I do wish more "webmasters" would understand that unless your in the Top 100 sites a quad-core-hyper-ninja box probably isn't required. After all, you could setup a P4 with 2GB box to handle 30k a day if you really wanted
