Well I just went through this exact thing:
I took my site: http://www.gundam.com which was a CF/Non-Fusebox website app
and fuseboxed it. I fuseboxed it in a way such that I didn't change very
much code, just chopped everything up into act/dsp/app files pretty much and
did some tweaking. My site receives about 500,000 unique visitors per month
and 12 million hits per month. Its running on a single Dual 500 Celeron
(yes there is such a thing) Server with a separate MS Sql 2000 Server for DB
support. I've had no complaints in site loading times from users and have
seen no discernable difference. I still have my old files on backup and I
could throw them up on www2.gundam.com or something and perhaps throw a load
tester against both sites.
Bottom line, the gain I got from modularizing the site far outweighs any
performance hits I might have seen and could easily resolve with a small
investment in some bigger server hardware.
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