We had a couple of rough weeks here at TTIW since site usage increases a lot at this time of the year. The fact that we were metioned in a very nice article by CNN.com, and that there is a lot more pages in this new version for spiders to index also added to site usage. Well, what happened was basically that we run into some trouble accomodating all of the new visits and all the extra activity so we had to do a lot of tunings on the server and on the scripts to handle this:

• Tuned OS, Apache, Mysql and Php resources usage and changed the rotation of logs(to acomodate a faster rate of rotation).
• Optimized a bunch of sql queries that were slowing down the site.
• Did a couple of extra configurations on Apache

There is still some stuff that needs to be done tomorrow morning and we will officially move to version 3.4.3