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Just a different taste.
Now only if you could point out where I made such a claim
What made you think that it was directed at you? He seems to be just explaining his thoughts.
.. I didn't want to be that guy but.... for a 'large forum' you should have at least 1GB ram.
To answer your question nginx + php5-fpm..
Others have mentioned caching but besides opcode caching.. as forums are pretty dynamic you may not benefit for nginx's cache.
(unless you make a manual exception for logged in users[pm me if you need help with that])
Try Nginx + PHP-FPM. There should be some guides/premade nginx configs out there for IP Board.
I'm not familiar with it, but see if there's some static caching plugins that dump a page to HTML (at least for logged out users).
Plugins/Add-ons usually add a ton of additional requests to each page load. So try to offload any dynamic stuff for ad serving or whatever and disable unnecessary features. Look into opcode caching, sometimes just installing APC can drastically improve performance (opcache is bundled with PHP 5.5 and up).