im not sure if rich said this was 100% the problem or not, or if i read his post wrong, but i believe that someone, or several people were attacking the site and basically overloading it.
Not sure though, and dont quote me on that as 100% fact. The way the site was bogging down though, it made me think that the load on the servers was pretty great.
Anyone else have any information on that? * have you spoken with rich?* be cool to know, i miss my home....