As we get bigger and more popular, we have more hackers trying to get in and more data-gathering businesses pounding our site. If you may recall, a shutdown many months back was simply because Microsoft's Bing bots were pounding our server.
I apologize for any slowdowns. We're getting to them as quickly as possible. Cbetts helped out a bunch on Friday when we had some slowdowns, which was especially helpful as my laptop hard drive died when I was trying to fix some stuff.