Actually the reason this site sucked so bad over the last couple of months has now been fixed. Reason was the Forum at Hooters and the Forum on **17**.com. There were so many posts that had to be checked at every connection and verified against a cookie on your local machine, it simple dragged out all juice of the server. To fix this problem, I had to prune all forums for posts older than 5 days. Amount of stats and files were simply to much for the server. Forum at Hooters and **17** are now moved to a new host. I hope this helps even further in the regain of lost speed.
Have fun and enjoy the regained speed in here for now.