[Salamander]

It’s not ‘sabotage’.

Did you look up where the parent ISP ntt.net is actually located?

The “servers” eventually resolve to gkg.net in CO at IP:209.157.64.200.

It’s a wonder FR loads on a good day.

Definitely needs a better/bigger web host and lots more bandwidth.

I agree whoelheartedly with those who say FR needs to seriously consider hiring IT professionals to run the site.

It’s getting far too much traffic for their web host to handle.

2 terabyte tansfer limits and 250g storage isn’t cutting it.

There are tons of web hosts that have Unlimited Data/ Storage/Unlimited Data Transfer

FatCow has forum capability and unlimited space/bandwidth and is *really* cheap and extremely dependable.

They’re also ranked #1 for forum hosting.

http://webhostinggeeks.com/bestforumhosting.html

[Salamander]

Reckon you may as well be here for this.

[tomkat]

No, I hadn't looked that up, but it doesn't surprise me .. thanks for the info, kinda validates some of my guesswork.

The pipe being the main culprit makes more intuitive sense than most other possibilities, imho.

It just seems that database or other coding errors would cause sporadic / unpredictable poor performance, quite unlike the 'special event' logjams that occur here, almost like clockwork.

[superfries]

Salamander is 100% correct.......why are we not using fatcow?