I agree, but I'm not sure what to do at this point. I'm on a shared server, my site isn't very busy and doesn't warrant a dedicated server. I never had this issue before, the past few weeks, I'm kinda thinking that they have added users recently that are putting a lot of load on the server that wasn't there before. If it's breif bursts in traffic, is there some way I can change settings on my forum so that it's a bit more tolerant of server load issues...maybe increasing timeout times when the forum is trying to access the database?
If not, any suggestions on how to approach the Web Host for help on this? Maybe they need to make some changes on their end?