Forums intermittently going down?

[AlCaponeJr]

On Friday, 5 October 2018 at 16:11:05 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 11:51:02PM +0000, Vladimir Panteleev 
> via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Thursday, 4 October 2018 at 19:18:15 UTC, JN wrote:
>> > Seems like the issues with the forum got worse. It's hardly 
>> > usable today, most of the time I am being greeted by "forums 
>> > are being overloaded" message.
>> 
>> Yeah, painfully aware. I've been trying a bunch of different 
>> things all day, and looks like things are back under control 
>> now. I think the metal is reaching its limit, or there's just 
>> too much stuff running on the machine - it continued to be 
>> really slow even 10 minutes after I completely stopped the 
>> forum process.
>
> Maybe it's time for the Foundation to fund dedicated hardware 
> for running the forum software?  If we're reaching the limit of 
> the hardware, there's not much else that can be done.
>
>
> T

Why not use some Cloud Services instead of worrying about 
hardware?

Al.