I think I've narrowed the problem down to our database access being throttled. I sent a message to the webhost around 4pm and have not heard back yet. Hopefully this is resolved very soon. Sorry about the wait(s)! :P

Well that's good, beca

y e s , i t i s v e r y s l u g g i s h
l a t e l y . . . . . . .

I was sent an email from dreamhost a couple hours ago. They've moved us to a new server. We've been on 'alcor' for at least 6 years and now we're on 'hart'. So that's a thing.

I'm still not sure if that has anything to do with site performance. :(

Well the site is no longer slow, so that maybe was the problem ;)

FREEEEEEEEDOOOOOOOOM!!!

Seems like things are automajikally resolved and faster than evahr!!

yesssssssssss oh god now I'M TOO FAST

is it just me or are some page loads still sporadically sluggish?

THANKS DREAMHOST

xterm yr going mad!!

alcor:~# uptime
07:19:26 up 79 days, 17:43, 4 users, load average: 0.46, 0.39, 0.28

puke7@hart:~$ uptime
14:15:43 up 30 days, 1:27, 3 users, load average: 5.19, 6.84, 7.09

Not only is it faster but runs SO much HARDER!!
AND STRONGER!!
AND DEEPEERTTTT!!!! AND UNGGGHGHGHGHGHGHRRRR!

talk about whiplash!

a higher load average means the machine is more bogged down :P

either way though, i haven't noticed speed problems again since last night... could just be a fluke i guess!