@mapleswingers
"The truth is, nobody knows how the new version will perform since it isn't even in alpha let alone beta mode yet. I know plenty of folks that run WordPress, Drupal, PivotX as well as Etomite on cheap servers with no issues that could not be addressed by going to a faster/larger sever when and if the membership / visitors was to actually climb in large numbers."

to compare Dolphin to wordpress, just shows your total lack of Knowledge about servers and hosting and dolphin.

let see more me explain a few things as to why most hosts cant run Dolphin.

when a server is setup it has default settings that php.net set as the default install, most hosts keep to this.

mbstring encoding is set to off as default.

DOM/xls is not installed on the default php setup of a server so has to be installed

imagemagic is a 3rd party script not always installed by hosts.

and no shared host will install the RMS and JRE1.6 so you can run all the ray apps. there for Dolphin will not run fully on any shared $5 hosting account. you'll have to get RMS access elsewhere for one.

not to mention that some of them have Register_globals on, meaning your site will be hacked.