I'm doing research on his particular error he's getting and I'm seeing some tweaks between IIS, SQL, and ASP.NET -- When I get some more pinpoints, I'll be posting them -- maybe there's some minor config setting in the server that will help with the downtime.
Thanks for the heads up on the statistics against the other systems -- that definitely provides some good perspective and useful information --
Today my forum is down again, I can't find the reason, just restart the iis and it runs again, hope that 1.9.6 R.C version is stable.