This has been going on for about a year now to one varying degree or another. After 20 years of operation I wonder if some of the problems are related to the size of your database servers. If you want to keep it simple, maybe only keep posts for 5 - 10 years?.
May have to do that. I can see a completely separate server and database for archives. Thanks.
Sounds like a corrupt plugin. Disable all external plugins and check the logs to find the error. See if that clears the problem. If it does, enable plugins one at a time. Each time check to ensure site page is loading fully. At some point it will break again. That will be your bad plugin.
Hope this helps. Someone you know and trust aside from John can remote in and fix this problem in 15 minutes.
By the way, that’s possibly being done virtually in real time anyway. As of the last upgrade some months ago, it’s my understanding that we have enough solid state drive capacity installed that everything that gets accessed is held in solid state memory to minimize drive accessing. In fact, I seem to remember john saying we now have enough capacity to hold the entire database in memory. But, obviously, there’s a wrench in the mechanism somewhere.
I vote NO to that... Many of the old threads are amazing history of a movement. It was awesome to read the old Vince Foster threads during the campaign.