Last night I was online around 9-10, and the site was slow to load. Pics never loaded. It wasn't my internet, as I had no problem on other sites. I didn't do a traceroute or anything, so it could have been in between, but I bet it was the forum server...
I think the site is on 1and1.com, which is probably a cloud server on the west coast. I use media temple, and probably have 75 websites on three servers. Biggest problem with cloud servers is bad neighbors. We have had a couple of problems, but we take up a lot of server space, so we have few neighbors.
I offered to host the forum for free a year or so ago, but never even got a reply. I didn't want to have my hands in the pot -- just offered it as a freebie from the company I work for.