Have you ever thought of changing the forum software to, VBulletin or phpbb or something php? Not that theres a problem with this forum, its just really slow at busy times, which most Perl forums are
Jo, Bailey & Sam - Run Free At the bridge Bonnie, Toby & Leo
In view of the size of this board, the sheer amount of posts in a day I doubt that any of the above software would help and certainly in my experience of other boards at least 2 would slow it to a crawl.
Best wishes, John