At this point all the forums are moved to the new facility / setup along with a dozen or so websites.
The speed tests done prior to moving everything are showing almost exactly the same speeds after the move :-)
Now that's a pleasant surprise.

I have some really big and heavier use sites to migrate in the next week and one that will take weeks...
but it appears that forums arent causing the system to even blink above their baseline.

Finally ... ;-)