Slow site performance over the past day and a half...
Yes, the site has been slower than usual over the past 36-48 hours. Here are the reasons why:
1. We are carrying out some database work in preparation for a hardware move to a new server location (and new hardware). That's putting some ongoing load on the database.
2. Thursday night-friday morning (depending on your time zone) is the time we do our weekly scheduled backup. The move to the new server hardware/location will help make these backups less noticeable in the future. But they are a fact of life, we HAVE to back up the site.
3. Also not helping is that we occasionally find people trying to download forum content en masse for whatever reason. We had one this morning, which Jin blocked.
1. We are carrying out some database work in preparation for a hardware move to a new server location (and new hardware). That's putting some ongoing load on the database.
2. Thursday night-friday morning (depending on your time zone) is the time we do our weekly scheduled backup. The move to the new server hardware/location will help make these backups less noticeable in the future. But they are a fact of life, we HAVE to back up the site.
3. Also not helping is that we occasionally find people trying to download forum content en masse for whatever reason. We had one this morning, which Jin blocked.
posted by Josh - Photo.net Admin at
11:19 PM
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