This past week has been brutal on ChefTalk as we have been experiencing more outages than ever. It is difficult to say why exactly this happened since it does not seem like our traffic increased that much in the past week. Most likely our host changed something and it affected us.
Here is what we have done to correct the problem. We have moved the community forums database to a fully dedicated server and we are running the forums off of this database. This should take away all of the database outages we have been having.
Our next steps are migrating the main site content off our old set up and moving to a new set up and moving the entire site to the fully dedicate server.
Please take time to visit the people that made this possible by helping with the move and providing us with a reasonable dedicated solution:
Website Hosting by CHIhost.com, Chicago Illinois