SylviaCaras and Kremmen:
You both seem to have difficulty in understanding the challenge of making sure that FT runs in a safe and secure way with as best performance as it can provide. As it may be that you don't believe us, please follow the below link to vBulletin, the company that designs and builds the software that runs most of the top traffic bulletin boards in the world - of which FlyerTalk is happy to be among. In this post on their own Web site - not ours - you'll see that they have posted about a fix for a significant potential security flaw. The most important part of this page comes right below that when they note "Performance Hit Since PHP 4.3.10 / 5.0.3". Apparently the installation of their security flaw fix has caused in their words "suddenly started to run significantly slower than normal after installing PHP 4.3.10 or 5.0.3 in order to patch the security flaw in previous versions of PHP." That is what has crippled FT since around mid-January when we all startted to notice a real performance problem on FT. We realized that we had to make a decision: allow search, but not allow members to access FT or temporarily shut off search and allow members to continue to use FT until this fix is available in a stable form. We have apparently made the wrong decision for you. We apologize. It is our hope that upon reading where this problem originates, you'll cut us a little slack for being bungling idiots that can't even provide search for you. We have not invented this problem and we are not trying to make your experience on FT miserable.

At the end of this day, I can only say I'm sorry.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127027

And when the fix for this from PHP/vBulletin has taken longer than any of us would have hoped, we no longer give you a false hope as there is no mention of a date in the announcement of when this will be fixed. We did however provide the Google work around which members provided and it seems to work for most.