Are the servers failing?

[NoaHall]

Or is it a DDoS attack? Or is it just me it's slow for?

*Note - quick now

**Note -- very quick now

[yabbadabbadont]

I got some database errors and then no response a while back.

[Joeb454]

It looked to me as though it was the proxy that sits in front of the servers that died

[NoaHall]

Ah, perhaps. I was getting error 503, and database couldn't connect.

[KiwiNZ]

We had an issue with one of the Database servers . All fixed now thanks to Ubuntu-Geek the caped crusader

[Joeb454]

All fixed now thanks to Ubuntu-Geek the caped crusader

You've just painted a highly amusing picture in my head :p