I’ll just quote myself on the thread below this one covering the same subject.
The “database error” abates in the evening and early morning hours, and somewhat on weekends. I don’t know if the site is really this popular, but they were near a record high 15k+ users (the record is 18.8k, back in August when the site had another run of access issues and was down for a few days) earlier this week. Fewer than 600 of those users are site members, which makes you wonder about the remainder given how little of the site is accessible to nonmembers.
Whether it’s manufactured or real people viewing the site, it can’t handle that kind of traffic very well.
Originally Posted by TinMan