If you access it in the middle of the night (as your time stamp for this message suggests), you will probably always find it slower than during the day (U.S. East coast time). That's when we do our backups, and there's no getting around the need to do them, and the fact that it will always impact the forum's performance a bit.

We simply schedule them for when there is the least amount of traffic, and unfortunately that's early morning our time.

DocJohn