If I were in charge of Bimmerpost's technical "infrastructure" and this is a problem approved to be solved with money, the first thing I'd do is get a second database server (a healthy-spec AWS RDB instance) and move half of the forums to it. It appears that everything currently lives on one box/instance, and that sucks for overall uptime. It's the ultimate single point of failure.
I did see VB debug info turned on during one of the maintenance periods, so the guys seem to be looking in the right places.
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