Badly lagging forum this morning

We are getting random blips in resource usage which slows it down for a minute before it goes back to normal. I rebooted incase it was a hung service causing it and then the whole server became inaccessible. The recovery console showed it had no external connection. Tried loads of things to fix it including even trying old backups and they had the same issue. Was just in a support queue and suddenly it started working again.

It's still getting the random resource usage blips though so I'm trying to work out the cause

 

Is it working better for everyone now? I hope so as it took me over 13 hours of tweaking things to get on top of it. The problem is we are in an annoying middle ground when it comes to servers.

We have way more concurrent connections than our server setup is recommended for out of the box (It has taken alot of tweaking but it generally able to handle way more connections that it can out of the box) and in an ideal world we would move to a more advanced setup for future proofing but the growth isn' fast enough to justify the extra cost and complexity (and neither does the income support it) so its just about continually tweaking things to combat malicious traffic better and keep making it run more efficiently for legit traffic so we can put needing to do that off until users reach that critical mass that we have no choice.