What Gives?? Another chronic server overload victim (v1.1rc2)

[chinathetimes]

I saw another board with the same problem with no solution offered.

I was given 7 days to clear up my problems or pay up for another level of service or clear out.

I have a total of 16 registered users.
I have had 2,912 unique hits on my home page.

I was getting half a million sql queries in a 24 hour period and I have reduced that to 307,000 by applying the Firefox 1.5 patch and mods.

I have  911 Posts in 153 Topics by 15 Members.

Recent Usage (Daily)

	Current	Allowed (period average)	Percentage (%)
Traffic (MB)	37.00	17066.67	0.22
CPU (Mins)	6.30	16.00	39.38
SQL (Conqueries)	307413	262144	117.27

Usage History (2006/03)

	Current	Allowed (period average)	Percentage (%)
Traffic (MB)	603.20	512000.00	0.12
CPU (Mins)	147.50	480.00	30.73
SQL (Conqueries)	9988286	7864320	127.01

Version Information:
Forum version: SMF 1.1 RC2 (more detailed)
Current SMF version: SMF 1.1 RC2
PHP version: 4.4.2
MySQL version: 4.1.16-log
Server version: Apache/1.3.34 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_jk/1.2.15
GD version: bundled (2.0.28 compatible)
eAccelerator: 0.9.3

Now ... when I loaded this, I thought it would basically run itself ... I am as stupid as a post and I have wasted 3 days of the original 7 days of my 'probation' installing the Firefox mod and checking the results.

I have 4 days t osolve this problem or I go TU.

The site is http://www.chinathetimes.com/

I am running Joomla with oristo's bridge to SMF.

help! 

And most of the stuff in the things to try stickys just confused me with all the big words.

Awright ... I am not a total house plant ... I was a mainframe programmer but new to the ways of php and mysql.

[Ben_S]

By my maths, could be dodgy, that works out at 3.6 queries a second which is nothing really, who is your host?

[chinathetimes]

Aplus.net

Kings of the one sentence answer and the online 'support desk' who are in reality the sales team.

Contact them and they tell you to call in on the phone.

Freaked them out when I told them I was in China.

There was a long pause while I think their tech support guy died in Counterstrike and could take my call.