Hi all! Sorry for that recent bout of weirdness. Allow me to explain!

Keith and I rolled out some very important updates tonight, updates that we hope will improve performance considerably.

Subeta has two database servers, db1 and db2. At any given time, one of them is the "master" server, and the other is a "slave". This just means that only one server actually processes updates from the site, and the other is read-only... you can only ask it questions, not make changes on it. The slave server listens to the master to stay up-to-date on changes.

Prior to our updates tonight, Subeta only used the master server. The slave was around as a backup in case something happened to the master server, so we have a second server ready-to-go.

We've now completed changes to our code that allows us to use both servers at once. This means that instead of reading from only one database server, Subeta now uses two whenever it can. This means, ideally, that the load on our master server can be cut in half.

We're hoping this will result in a faster and more stable Subeta experience. However, the database code is used by the entire site, and it's impossible to test everything out by ourselves. So there may be problems. If you find a problem (something not working that used to), please make a report about it in the bugs forum, and we'll fix it as soon as we can!

Thanks,
Alex