Site is crawling along

[#1]

I am now seeing massive delays - part waiting for the site and the rest waiting for Google Analytics - has this started early and messed something up

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Planned Community Site Maintenance - Wednesday 26th August Midday-6.00pm Portal Posted on: Wednesday 26 August 2009, 11:40 When's this work happening? This afternoon. What does it affect? The servers used to host our Community website. How long will it take? Up to five hours. What does the work involve? We will be moving some of the servers used to host our Community Site to a new data centre in Sheffield. Is it likely to cause problems? No it shouldn't do, the master servers are housed in a different data centre and aren't being moved as part of this work. Is there anything else I need to know? No. Kind Regards, Bob Pullen Customer Support

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[#2]

Two firebug reports

[#3]

thas mild for you jim, slow isnt the word for it
two minutes a time at 6000 plus line speed

[#4]

It's almost ground to a halt.    Guess it's to do with the servers being moved but surely this problem could have been anticipated and the work done at a more sensible time.

[#5]

Ha Ha 

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What does the work involve? We will be moving some of the servers used to host our Community Site to a new data centre in Sheffield. Is it likely to cause problems? No it shouldn't do, the master servers are housed in a different data centre and aren't being moved as part of this work.

[#6]

Yep - We weren't expecting any impact!
Bob 's getting a service status out currently and we'll try and get things back to normal as soon as possible.
I'm going to get a coffee

[#7]

Sorry JemeseH, that this site is so slow, Tuned the tele on while I was waiting and a 60 Minute program about Ashridge House, was on last night and now nearly finished on ITV3, no repeats on my list, just watching the last four minutes

[#8]

Thanks for your comments James.  Looking forward to Bob's update.

[#9]

Service Status here. Initial thoughts are that we're hitting the maximum limit for database connections. More news as we have it...

[#10]

Looks as though someone kicked the hamster - running much better at the moment

[#11]

Yep - I think we have it nailed now.  Just running some tests... sorry guys!

[#12]

Yes, it's speeded up   Don't let the hamster die

[#13]

We are now running dual hamsters in a CAGE-1 configuration.
We're looking into the root cause, but we've applied a workaround in the interim.
M

[#14]

Quote from: Gricey

We are now running dual hamsters in a CAGE-1 configuration.

Think you might have been better with a couple of Guinea Pigs ala the G-Force film 

[#15]

Service Status thread cleared.