I am pleased to report that our ISP appears to have resolved a long-standing issue with the database server that our forums reside on. We were experiencing query times of around six seconds - the average now is around 0.3 or nearly 20 times faster, which is how it's supposed to go

I'll be monitoring the situation over the next few days but so far, everything looks good. The other board I run on the same server is also going like a bat out of hell, so it's not my imagination.
Enjoy!
=:~)