Why is the server so slow!?!?!? I know everyone is suffering through this horrible slowness and yes we're well aware. Two part issues semi related. One of our member sites got an exclusive on an upcoming title this week so users from around the world started slamming the server like crazy looking at photos and reading up on the latest development. It brought our server partially to its knees since it was totally unexpected. To offset some of the high usage, a decision was made to switch some of our core operating software (Apache to Litespeed) in hopes it would improve efficiency and loads. It offered a unique test scenario to see how well we would do under high loads. Well, the results thus far are mostly mixed. Loads are definitely down, however for some odd reason it's taking ages for pages to appear that should normally appear in minutes. So we're still in the process of tweaking litespeed and hopefully by next week we're in full operation again.
Okay we figured out the problem and it should be resolved...for the most part. Apparently we did something funny when installing Litespeed and we ending up capped the outbound speed to about 30bytes per second. *sigh* Fixed that and everyone should be operating at full speed
