Does anyone think this could be some kind of denial of service attack from the left? I’m being serious. Is there some kind of massive hit on the servers from mischievious parties that is causing this?
That idea has been floated here since the site first showed signs of non-optimum performance, but time has shown that it's something technically related - not from outside attacks.
The problems are chronic, and not at all intermittent. No DOS attack lasts as long as the problems we've seen here.