It's been in existence for a few months now, but just moved to new hosting, which might explain the teething problems. The new site includes a ready-made gallery feature and lots of photographs, which is useful but is likely to gobble up bandwith.

Maybe it's suffering from the Mudcat Effect, a relative of the Slashdot Effect "when a popular website links to a smaller site, causing a massive increase in traffic. This overloads the smaller site, causing it to slow down or even temporarily close".