It also doesn't help that we are getting inundated by very high "Guest" counts again. This morning we are hitting over 1300 "Guests On Line" again. I found just getting into the site and logging in took more than the usual time frame (about 30-50 seconds for each step).
I haven't looked at location info for these guests yet this morning, but looking randomly yesterday, when the guest counts were 800-900 or so, showed more than a 50% average of them being from non-US based IP locations. A lot of them showing from Brazil, Vietnam, and odd/unusual locations scattered throughout the middle east and the European far east.

As of this posting, count now shows 1,423 Guests On Line