[Prophet Tenebrae]

Yeah, the BEA is dead on all counts and has been for some time... I've known it to have outages on the forum or the addventure, etc. but it's been some time since it totally died on ALL fronts... which probably means that it's a bonafide hosting problem or some such, rather than the more recent downtime which has been due to software updates/errors.

Virtual memory... well, your computer will sometimes use hard disk space as memory - which is why you should never totally fill a primary hard disk - but yeah, RAM upgrade is the way forward. As it goes, RAM is pretty cheap and in terms of ? per performance, it's probably the easiest and best value for money.