From a monitoring point of view, it looks like things have remained stable since that change. If anyone is still seeing otherwise, please pop something on this thread.

Thanks,

Rob

Hi folks,

Really sorry about these issues - we're well aware of them, and working with the hosting company on them.

Basically, we're seeing intermittent packet loss between the SQL boxes and...

Thanks Ed - yes, all pretty smooth (about 2 minutes of downtime), with just an errant VPN link that didn't want to re-establish, but all sorted.

Thanks all for your patience!

Rob

Thanks, Jonathan - good spot.

That sproc is largely out of date now in any case, since we now run forum posts through Akismet, which is much smarter than the relatively...

OK, thanks - the CPU load on the web servers is much reduced now, not that it was ever close to maxing them out, so it could have been causing...

Michael, did you happen to notice whether it affected the forums in particular, or the whole site?

I've...

This seems faster.

Indeed - I'm working on making it work faster though :-).

(Sorry for the spam - it's in the test forum at least, so hopefully not too obnoxious!)

Rob

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How's performance now?

Promise I'll stop testing soon.

Excellent.

Yup, definitely good.

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