Long story short: One of my sites is growing like crazy... millions of pageviews a month, and I need it optimized. I keep having to upgrade the server to accommodate the growth. I'm at the point now that I think I'm throwing hardware at software / configuration issues. The majority of usage comes from my forum (a hacked version of www.Fluxbb.org ) that is PHP / MySQL based. I'm on a very beefy VPS that is running CentOS with Apache. So, my questions for the masters: 1) What information do I need to provide to someone for THEM to determine if they are a good candidate? 2) What information should I get from them to determine if they won't make things worse and are trustworthy? Basically, I need to find an expert at everything server management / optimization related so I can stop having to throw hardware at software issues. Thanks in advance for any ideas and/or suggestions.