Site Move Announcement Oct 29-2004

[TigerWoman]

Yeah, after 5:30, it was like a three minute wait to change pages or my browser would come back that nothing happened. I got down to the bottom of the last page of a thread and it stopped, wouldn't scroll any farther.
Then it just picked up. Hope its not major too. TW

 

[Bob Hubbard]

The hiccups are being caused by short term spikes in the server load caused by databases being backed up. I've been qeeping the server admins aware of the hiccups and we should be seeing an improvement within a day or so.

The most recent few minutes was caused by the tweaking of the database backups. It will usually run late at night / early morning for the North American crowd. (2-4AM EST)