I apologize for the slowness experienced recently. I have narrowed it down to SYN Attack. I am in the process of adding some additional security measures to prevent this type of attack . This will require some downtime over the next couple of nights so If you cannot access the site anytime after 11:45EST, it is because I am in the process of making those changes.
I have also disabled the search engine because some exploits were coming from something in the search engine. I am investigating and should be able to turn this back on soon.
...Vin