Extreme site slowdown

[Zurai]

I'm fairly sure the admins are already aware of this, but just in case they aren't:

I (and several others) have noticed an extreme slowdown while browsing ENWorld the last couple of days. Forum pages take upwards of 5 minutes to load during the daytime, if they load at all; my usual load time is nearly instant.

I'm not sure if it's more hacking attempts or server load due to 4E or what, but on the off chance it's not universal and the admins aren't aware of it, I thought I'd post about it.

 

[Morrus]

Yes, we had noticed...

 

[Wystan]

I am still experiencing this during the normal East Coast Work hours....

 

[Darkness]

It was really bad for me an hour ago, but it's been improving since then... very slowly.

So yeah, still quite slow.

 

[Knightfall]

It was really bad for me an hour ago, but it's been improving since then... very slowly.

So yeah, still quite slow.

The site wasn't loading for me at all an hour ago. It seems to be back to normal, but it's definitely not blazingly fast.

Of course, it's never blazingly fast on my P3.

 

[Michael Morris]

I had to reboot after the hackers got in... again.

 

[Knightfall]

I had to reboot after the hackers got in... again.

Damn hackers!

 

[RangerWickett]

So do the hackers just do it to get their jollies, or are they setting up spam bots, or does somebody have a grudge with 4th edition?

 

[Kheti sa-Menik]

Besides being unreasonably slow, today, I'm getting these errors on a frequent basis:

"Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in /shop/Connections/shopdb.php on line 13"

Also, I am seeing just simply "There has been a database error" type screens fairly regularly.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

Besides being unreasonably slow, today, I'm getting these errors on a frequent basis:

"Warning: mysql_pconnect() [function.mysql-pconnect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) in /shop/Connections/shopdb.php on line 13"

Also, I am seeing just simply "There has been a database error" type screens fairly regularly.

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