I am experiencing the same problem, my page loads are around 2 seconds.

It's very annoying, I have a server hosted on comcast 50 Mbps down and like 20 Mbps up.

IIS, I am looking into MySQL/PHP configuration problems.

Hosting a server at home is like camping, its fine for a weekend, but you dont want to live like that forever.

Thanks for the inputs so far, will explore them over this weekend.

 

You should note, for me, your time to first byte was around 700~800ms. If you shaved off 300ms by removing that bad plugin (classifieds), you're at 400~500ms. You are already nearing the good-as-you-get with IPB. Comparatively, this website is at 300~400ms for me. IPB is a big software, you should remember that.

That 300ms was shaved off before you tested it out. So it will probably still be 800ms for you. I had done this on Saturday I think.