If you are the sole tech support for both sites, I suggest you take the time to check the performance of both sites once an hour or so. Both sites were in deep trouble for a couple of days and you did nothing.
It is simply not possible right now for me to check performance on an hourly basis or hire someone else to do so. I do use the sites daily to make sure they're working alright for me, and they were.
And heavy-duty programming just doesn't allow for scheduled interruptions. Especially when they're scheduled that frequently. I'm so knee-deep that if I interrupt myself or get interrupted, it can take half an hour just to get my thought processes back to where they were.
However, Matt is always much more accessible than I am right now, and when he hears about or sees performance problems, he lets me know. When he lets me know, I chase it down.
Of course, tracerts won't do a bit of good anymore.
I trust everything is running smoothly now, right?
I can later write routines to check various performance aspects of the site and report to me when they fall outside an acceptable range. Can't write them now, but definitely do-able later.
The slowdown yesterday, though, introduces a new kind of testing I'll have to do. The source of the problem didn't become evident until I put a binary file on each site's webservers, downloaded them, and noted the total throughput. The problem was caused by someone on the same switch as us really hammering it with traffic. Only way to uncover that problem is by measuring our own throughput.
As an aside, I don't have an ETA yet on this, but the development on SI's new db server is going well and once the code is all written and the system is in place and slugging through all the data, that'll free up about a week that I'll be doing nothing but tweaking iHub code and adding features.
It should happen sometime in the next few weeks. There are some new features Matt and I really want (and some speed-tweaking has become more important) and I'm really looking forward to getting to work on them.
Edit: I currently have 368 messages in my MailBox. I'm sure it'll eat up most of a day or more just powering through those once I'm in a position to give iHub more of my time. I haven't even been hitting the link lately because there's no way I can come up with the time to make any kind of serious dent in it yet.
I'm only writing this message right now because my import routine is in the middle of a test-run that'll take it about 10-15 minutes to complete.
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