With the main issues now in the open, I would also like to highlight a secondary issue with forum performance. The forum's moderators are unpaid volunteers, donating their time to help the forum operate smoothly. With poor server performance, even simple tasks often take an inordinate amount of time, and tracking user posting histories or other more involved tasks are often out of the question. I cannot speak for other moderators, but when server performance goes downhill, my moderating efforts are met only with frustration, and in the last week, I have simply given up on achieving any moderator tasks (no matter how simple) when the forum is not performing well. Without robust hardware and software infrastructure, other elements of the BikeForums infrastructure may quickly fall into disrepair, too.