This caused me to not be able to log on today from 3:30 PM Central time to just a bit ago... I took a second and looked to see how many people were online. It says roughly 100, so I lurked around to see who is online. What I discovered is alarming. Over half of our vistors who are supposedly on the sight are Adbots from Google, lurking around, and I have a suspicious feeling this is what's slowing/hurting the site. I understand a need to advertise to help fund the site, but is there a cap to be placed on the constant usage by these bots? I don't know, maybe I'm in the wrong, but unless there aren't huge issues with the hosting server, then this is the only conclusion I can come to. You guys are like my extended online family, and this one of my ways in taking a step back to relax by visiting the forum, and over the past couple weeks, the downtime for myself has been more downtime then available up time. Just food for thought.
I was on at 2:30 ish today and as soon as I finished typing a reply to a thread, it went down. I tried to log in throughout the day and I couldn't get back on until about midnight or so.
That's a good 9 (give or take) hours of the server being down.