Periodic my butt, Tom. Yes, these specific database error issues have just come up, but the performance of this site has been crap ever since the alleged hacker attack of, what, like a year ago? Since IB has taken over, the performance of this site just plain sucks. The bozos that should have been fired during the upgrade fiasco are obviously still around.

FYI, if you are having issues, rather than subjecting the users to intermittent failures, just put up a maintenance splash page and keep everyone out until the issue is corrected AND tested. But nooo, let's make the users our perpetual beta testers and make sure we can keep those ad impressions going.

Oh, and part of your ongoing performance problems come from the javascripts you are loading from external sites like viglink.com. More ad revenue crap I presume?