It seems the page draws for this site are getting increasingly slower each month. I do not know if the problem is the web hosting , WordPress, MySQL or some combination. Something is causing this blog to periodically run dog slow. It is frustrating me big time. I’m working with my web host to chase down this issue.
Photo of my web server. Not sure what the problem is? 
Hi MAS try aWP plugin called WP-supercache, builds a plain html copy of your site to serve instead of DB calls,
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/
And try running through this article to see if it helps should help figure out if its a hosting problem or not.
http://www.jtpratt.com/wordpress-hack-8-how-to-optimize-and-backup-your-wordpress-database/
Supercache has been turned on and off the 6 months. I have noticed zero performance improvements.
My hunch is the problem is IIS. Next week I will start the move to an Apache server.
Sorry your comment got delayed. WP keeps labeling everything with links as SPAM.