An Update for everyone:
Here is what happened to the site this week. On Monday around 3-4pm I noticed that the website was not responding. This happens alot and I figured that it would be up in 5 to 10 minutes. A half hour later I checked the website again and there was an error message that stated that the hard drive on the server was corrupted. The hard drive problem was fixed about 9-10pm that night and anything on the server not using SQL worked fine. The problem is that this forum and the main website use SQL. More trouble tickets. Still no results. Finnally late Tuesday afternoon the SQL server was back online and I was able to backup everything to my home computer.
I'm going to request that my host moves this site to a different physical server. Hopefully they will do that and that will improve the performence. If not I'm going to move the server to a new host.
The quesiton I have for everyone is how bad do you see this problem as? How often when you try to get to the site do you have problems?