Site running slow and giving busy timeouts

[F0LLETT]

Hopefully this is solved.
The server has been the target of a constant DDOS attack. Specifically targetting our SQL DB.
I have taken steps to resolve this, so lets see how it goes.

[Castellen]

Thanks for the ongoing efforts Chris, but it's unfortunately pretty much un-usable at the moment.  Constant timeouts and re-tries, took half an hour to write a 5-minute post.