Over the past week and a half, forums that are hosted on the Cluster 0 MySQL servers have been experiencing slow speeds during US business hours. This was the direct result of the failure of C0Slave1 which represented a total loss of power just short of 40%.

The solution to this would require the resyncing of C0Slave1 (lasts five hours), which we did just a month ago. So instead of doing that, we have setup a new writing server cluster, now labeled Cluster 4.

Cluster 4 is comprised of existing equipment recycled for this particular use.

If your forum is being moved to C4, you will see a maintenance screen during the move process. We are beginning the transfer NOW so as to lower the strain on C0 immediately and bring forums back up to speed.