Wanted to post this up so everybody knows what's going on with the site, which has been infinitely frustrating for me lately...
Firstly, I'm on shared hosting. A private server for what I do and my traffic would cost too much or be too time consuming to maintain. Everything was fine until a few months ago when my hosting company (HostGator) moved my account to 'new hardware'. Then about 3 weeks ago, they had a massive data center outage where my site is held. Ever since then, every Friday from about 2 to 7 PM EST (roughly), anything that has to hit the SQL database (in this case the entire transactional framework i.e. ownhammer.com/store/) either crawls or times out. There is obviously some kind of weekly scheduled maintenance that goes on at that time, however I'm not sure at this time what exactly it is and why it impacts site navigation to the extent that it does. The last two weeks I thought it was just a part of the recovery process and expected it would stop, but the consistency has become tiresome. I'm opening a ticket with them to find out what the deal is, because it's to the point that it is impacting my business on various levels.
I do very much apologize for any inconvenience, hopefully you won't hold it against me.
*** Update ***
As of 5:45 PM EST everything is back to normal, I'll continue to look into why this keeps happening with my hosting company, as well as see if there is anything I can do on my end.
Firstly, I'm on shared hosting. A private server for what I do and my traffic would cost too much or be too time consuming to maintain. Everything was fine until a few months ago when my hosting company (HostGator) moved my account to 'new hardware'. Then about 3 weeks ago, they had a massive data center outage where my site is held. Ever since then, every Friday from about 2 to 7 PM EST (roughly), anything that has to hit the SQL database (in this case the entire transactional framework i.e. ownhammer.com/store/) either crawls or times out. There is obviously some kind of weekly scheduled maintenance that goes on at that time, however I'm not sure at this time what exactly it is and why it impacts site navigation to the extent that it does. The last two weeks I thought it was just a part of the recovery process and expected it would stop, but the consistency has become tiresome. I'm opening a ticket with them to find out what the deal is, because it's to the point that it is impacting my business on various levels.
I do very much apologize for any inconvenience, hopefully you won't hold it against me.
*** Update ***
As of 5:45 PM EST everything is back to normal, I'll continue to look into why this keeps happening with my hosting company, as well as see if there is anything I can do on my end.
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