With 20 active topics, I'd peg your expected pageview count at around 100,000-125,000. That's not a large board in the least.
Citing the general slowness, both on the frontend and backend, I'm going to say that your host is at fault here. The general slowness tells me that this is a case of the server simply being overloaded with requests, meaning the UBB scripts never get the time needed to run...
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