January 19, 2010

Speed and Performance Issues.

Hi Everyone, last night we discovered very slow performance in loading time. It appears that when people are hitting our site, it’s taking a while to officially launch the page open. Earlier during the day, things seemed to be running quite nicely, however it looks like we are having those hiccups again at this time. We will be spending the night working with our techs in solving this issue. It may be so that not everyone will be able to access our website. The blog however should be running. We will be keeping our updates listed below.

Thanks!

UPDATES:
[1] - We have started diagnosing the issues.
[2] - We have discovered possible issues.

We have discovered that there has been an extremely high activity of Yahoo, Google, and Bing crawlers on the server which consumed all the free apache processes. We have tried to minimize the processes on the overloaded server, however that has done nothing. For now, we are waiting for things to flatten out and return the apache process to a normal rate. The site should be running a bit better now.