Site slow Monday 8th, 5pm-8pm / Downtime 6th 7th September : 10pm - 6am

[BenF]

The site may be offline, during the above times to allow us to do some work to support future site upgrade work.

[BenF]

OK, work is now complete that I needed to do here - note the site may respond a little more slowly than normal through to 9am tomorrow morning as there are still other jobs running in the background.

[BenF]

A followup at 5pm on Monday - I'm rebuilding some large database search tables ( with 890,000 posts to search ) and so the database is currently being hit hard.

You may notice pages take a little longer than normal to generate, or posts take onger to submit whilst this is ongoing. This may be upto 40 seconds.

I'd expect the search table rebuild to be complete by 9pm and then the site should be back to normal.

[toxo]

I take it that's got something to do with why I'm not receiving email notifications anymore?

[inky]

Same here, no notifications - hotmail is surprisingly empty today

[BenF]

Nope, there were no changes to the site here.

Hmm checking more closely - I gave the mail server a kick and it seems to have sent a number of messages it had queued up but not tried to send.

Should be sorted now

[toxo]

lol yeah suddenly got a flood of notifications at 11:15

Cheers Ben!