All the forumco forums I know of are loading very slowly this evening - 20 seconds a page. It was even longer earlier in the evening - about a minute. Meanwhile the Snitz one has consistently loaded in about 2-3 seconds. This happens about once a week. I think there's some kind of persistent intermittent problem at the server.
I'll be going over to TalkTalk soon (they're 'free' they say). There will be an overlap period till I'm sure i want to make the switch so I should be able to make a direct comparison when the slowdown happens again.