Scheduled (sort of) maintenance is set for the server for the times between late night / early morning Thursday (7/3/2009 - tonight) through Friday (7/4/2009) between 01:00 and 04:00 CDT (07:00 - 10:00 GMT) - the server will be OFFLINE.
this is to address any hardware issues that may or may not be causing the server slow downs.

Also another scheduled downtime will follow after the USA holiday, times and dates TBA, to make some adjustments to the database server. (to increase the db server's speed)