Netcraft says GFY's running FreeBSD with Apache and PHP, so it's not a windows issue ( like myspace using windows and cold fusion).
My guess is this site gets so flooded with retarded posts that their software gets flooded with requests and can't handle / pool the load at times. I'm retarded, so I don't know if there's any PHP -> DB connection pooling software, but my initial guess would be a bottle-neck between PHP trying to open and close a limited number of connections offered by the DB backend.
Then again, I work for a company that redundant everything: oracle, mysql, customer farms, member farms, secure join farms and if someone fucks up a router setting all of it goes to hell. And I'm retarded on the whole subject.
So.....
TD -- Good for you man, for keeping this place running, even if people complain. I have no idea about being a sys-admin, but I'd think I'd rather sell flavored, shaved ice on a carribean beach.
