taking several seconds to load pages.

Noticed this yesterday, as well.

me too

I am sorry about that guys. A ton of traffic from the mid east and Russia, bots, etc. overwhelming us, we'll need to go to a larger server, at a higher price point unfortunately, I've been putting if off for quite awhile, but I am getting frustrated with not being able to get on our site too. The past couple days around the afternoon I get a white screen with and error message "The resources for this website have been exhausted" or something to that affect, and it's all because of the foreign traffic that's not even real people, it's bots. 

I have worked through IT on this issue over the past year and all the safeguards are in place, entire countries are banned from even accessing our community yet they still come in and get through.

 

I've changed servers three times in the past three years with upgraded storage (with higher costs) etc to no avail, the more storage and processing we purchase it just allows more bots to slam us.

 

I've got a ton of things going on here at home right now, I should be able to dig in again next month when I have more time and work on a solution. Thank you all completely for your patience and still calling us home with these issues in place, I promise, we'll get it figured out. Thank you for being here and thanks for the report Fred!

My local library is having the same trouble, they now require that patrons sign in before they can access anything other than the main page.

Haven't noticed any problems here "Two Weeks From Anywhere".