What are the major factors affecting site speed?

I'm changing hosts in a few weeks and I want to make sure my new host will be able to handle my site. I have a main site with photogalleries and also run a vbulletin with approximately 200 users online at all times. I use roughly 300 gigs per month bandwidth in total between the main site and the forums.

My current host says it's mainly the megabits of the connection that will determine the speed. I believe I can go up to 10mbps right now and my soon-to-be host ( The Planet ) tells me I will also have a 10mbps connection with 750 gigs bandwidth per month.

Someone else told me that the hard drive on the server computer makes all the difference.

Can anyone offer me some tips on what stats I should obtain from my current host to make sure the new one will be up to speed?

Thanks

 

 

 

 

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