An even better server came about! The blog has been completely moved over to the new server. IRCD will remain on the old server for now, and will be moved at a later date.
4GB of RAM
Two-drive RAID (configured to mirror, for redundancy)
Two Network Cards
Two 1.6GHz processors (dual processor, not core)
“Actual Server” (not a highly customized box, it is an actual blade server).
All problems with slow loading pages have been resolved due to this new server. The old server will be used as a backup and as a network storage device.