Jupitermedia is doing an extensive review of sites and site performance.

VBForums is one of the sites that is growing and thus straining. There is action occurring by both the system administrators and Jupitermedia developers to help rectify the pains of growing. This includes new servers being purchased (throwing hardware at it) as well as looking at code (tweaking database queries and such).

Feel free to keep reporting when you can't get to the site or you get a database error. This is all taken very seriously and it is what helps me push for the above actions for the site.

Brad!