I posted this on a different thread last month: "Regarding problems accessing the site, there has been a tremendous amount of traffic lately, most likely caused by search "bots". The traffic has hit peaks at 11:00-1:30 Pacific Time the last week or so, and once the number of viewers gets above 17,000 the site slows down, and somewhere around 20,000 the site becomes unresponsive due to overload. If you scroll down to the bottom of the home page there are forum statistics that show how many guests and members are currently viewing the site, plus the maximum for the day."