First, Welcome to the Forums, SirThornCrest! I hope you'll like it here.
The Bad News: This site has around 900 visitors looking at it at any given moment, and several thousand unique visitors who visit it every day. It's running on an Athlon 1.4ghz server, and its resources are stretched to the max.
The Good News: A fund raiser two months ago (early november) raised $13,000 dollars for a new server and hosting fees. The new box is 99% complete (matter of fact I need to go check on an update now), and when done will use the newest VBulletin, Dual Optern 848 chips, about 2GB (4GB?) RAM, and SCSI 15K speed hard drives; in other words, around 7 or 8 times faster than now. I'm still pegging the final transition to "End of January".
So take heart, and it will be definitely SOON.