Every evening at about 7:30pm NZST (so somewhere in the very early hours in the States), this forum times out with a Database error whenever I try to access it. This is typically about the time of the evening when I'm most likely to be on, so it's a bit of an inconvenience, but I understand that this is a international forum, and I'm probably right in the middle of that part of the 24h cycle where visitor numbers are generally at their lowest, so I can live with a daily downtime if that's what's needed to keep things going.

What I have noticed in the last couple of weeks however, is that the downtime period seems to have increased. Previously it would seem to last almost exactly 10 minutes with very little variation, but lately that figure has been closer to 15 or 20 minutes. Tonight was particularly bad for me, where I had issues for a full 25 minutes before things finally started to come right shortly before 8pm.

Is everything OK with these daily downtimes or is it just me?