Sorry guys that the site has been flakey. 

We set up GalCiv2.com to make use of the same database network that WinCustomize has because traditionally, game sites don't get a lot of traffic.  However, the game has done far better than we had anticipated (and we were anticipating it would do pretty well).  This in turn has increased traffic there far beyond what we had spec'd.  Moreover, over this weekend we had a situation that caused Slashdot, Digg, Neowin, Metafilter, and literally over 200 other sites to link to a particular article.

We have new servers on order. One of which is just a total monster. I wish I could have it. Both Raid 1 and Raid 0 on it! SMP 64-bit Dual core. So it should help things.  But in the meantime, we're limping along.  The current infrastructure was not designed to handle two sites of WinCustomize's traffic levels.

Update: The new servers have arrived. Now we just have to configure them, load them up, and get them up.  They're real monsters!