Sorry bro Compassion but I beg to differ and I've been monitoring the situation quite closely for over a month....
Most of the time I login from 11pm till 2am and I use both IE and Firefox. When I login using my ISP, I'll have all the symptoms that the bros here faced (slow, DNS error, database error, login already still brings you back to the login page).
However, when I login thru my company's VPN (which the server routes to US and back), using SBF is smooth as silk... Both IE & Firefox works without a glitch...
Traffic or ISP...? I'm sure bros here can draw a conclusion...
