My forum has occasional high spikes in activity, around a 2 hour period 3/4 times a month. It's important for the forum to be accessible during these times, without issues.

I've been monitoring this over the past year but it seems that some forums are having issues, initially with crashes and 403 errors but now with IP bans during these times.

Yes, absolutely. We host many communities in the same space as yours along with some seriously busy communities that have 4-5k people online and millions of views a day. You get the same platform as or enterprise customers.

Over the last year we've invested a lot of time and money to improve our cloud platform which has increased stability and eliminated scaling issues.