Recently, I, and a lot of other people I have talked to are having issues with Planet GameCube, as well as its forums.
At times the site will not load at all -- as if it is down. In addition, it doesn't respond to ping, so that means it probably is down, unless it is set to not respond to ping. However, this happens really frequently.
When the site does work, a lot of times there are connection refused errors. Like 50% of the time I click something [it just happened when I tried to post this new thread.]