Why the low fps on some servers?

[decoman 45]

I wonder, how come my gameplay has 60 fps on one server, while the one I visited just now with only me on it, I got 3 fps?

Is perhaps that server giving me 3 fps woefully inadequate in running ArmA2/DayZ?

[fatherjohn 143]

i was wondering that myself. i was on a hive server last night, with only a few other people, and my ping was about 30, and yet my fps were horrendous.

[jackogara 5]

Better server power more frames to client.

Many servers are on VPS (Yes they have got past the rules) and people end up with low FPS as the power of the server is low.