Well folks first an apology to our regular (and not-so regular) users. The forum caused a serious server strain today for my provider and they had to take it offline temporarily. I have reconfigured the forum software to prevent this from happening again (by limiting a number of both front end and back end features). With the forum membership growing this is likely only going to be a temporary fix. What that means is that the forum will need to be hosted on a more robust (ie: more expensive) server configuration. As a result the forum will likely need to start asking for donations to keep everything properly funded and running smoothly. If anyone has suggestions for hosting providers or forum software that runs a bit more efficiently please don't hesitate to drop a note here or in a p.m. to myself. Thanks!
 
Once again our apologies for this bump in the road.
 
Sincerely,
 
-Scott

Socalguy,
 
I believe this is stemming primarily from the growth of the base of active forum users. I've curtailed the breadth of some features (ie: search) which has gotten things back to a snappy state but such a fix isn't very reasonable, ideally the forum's functionalities should be improving over time... not the opposite.
 
-Scott