If anyone contacts Cohen or Campbell to ask about fixing the forum (or one of them read this), I am no longer #LazyAF. Writing a post and having the page reload and I lose all of my typings is pissing me off today.
"Your Appache HTTPD config is too conservative for the load your server pool is experiencing. Increase MaxSpareServers, and MaxClients by a factor of 5 and retry. Continue to do this until the issues subside. This setting is found in the httpd.conf file in /etc/httpd on your CentOS box.
The ultimate cause is the new replacement forum is making far more async AJAX calls back to the web server to handle things like "likes" and hovering on the "Notifications" and "Conversations". So, you need substantially more parallel connections available then currently configured.
Additionally, mod_proxy needs to have keepalive set to "on"."