problems connecting to forum

I have had a lot of this latley when trying to enter the forum, is it only me?

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

No, I get it all the time…I just leave it about 5 min, and then refresh the page and it seems to work again.

Just had it about an hour ago, so just did some other stuff on line for about 30 minutes and came back and it was working again.

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+100

And I thought it was just me, down here on the other side of the planet.
Happens every now and then, more often since the Beta was released.

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edit : actually I face problems even when logging out. I get an error as session verification failed. has anyone experienced.??

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