Uhh...Have
you looked at David's other sites? They are all full of bots with no real people posting in them. This is his only successful website. But it is really successful, probably because of the name.
And it is not that hard to setup a server and put VB on it. I mean this forum is basically stock. Just a few mods. I am not saying that is a bad thing. I mean, he has thousands of members. But I am saying it is not a complex setup.
Also, yes, that was a quite a long downtime. But the place seems nice and speedy now, does it not?