There do seem to be some pretty nasty database problems over on my other site,
AllPodcasts. There seem to be a lot of timeouts when trying to run queries, even if they're (to my mind) fairly simple.
I'm not sure what the root cause of it is (own up - who said "It's your crummy stored procedures"?), but I'm trying to get to the bottom of it.
AllPodcasts may just need its own hardware sooner rather than later - it's just running on a friends machine at the minute.