slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that there's been a change in kind, not degree, in the last 10 days. Any information from those who may know what has caused this would be much appreciated.
Ariel ran out of disk space and suda was made the master DB server. We'll probably have to switch the site into read-only mode for a day or so to fix this. Before we do that, we want to finish compressing the database, which will probably take another few days.
In case you're wondering, the root cause of this problem was a lack of available development and system administration expertise, coupled with a poorly timed developer conference.
-- Tim Starling