FWIW, we brought a second web server online today. Let me know here if performance is better or worse.

Our IT group was hesitant to do this as these forums store their attachments on local storage. With old WS2003 servers, we don't have a good shared storage location at the moment. The compromise is that we have a sync job that moves stuff back and forth every 5 minutes. If you get inconsistency with attachments, that's probably it. Wait a few as it will resolve before we can respond to a note.