You may have noticed that Boosterrific.com has been taking its own sweet time loading in recent weeks. I have the data to prove that this sluggishness has been affecting the site traffic. Hopefully, I'm only scaring away bots, and not Booster loyalists.

Since January 1, server response time has been frequently slow, with the homepage taking anywhere between 3 (good) and 20 seconds (very bad) or longer (very, very bad) to load.

To combat the problem, I've re-written the code rendering the pages and re-indexed the database. The server host has updated both the processing engine and the database server. By every internal benchmark, Boosterrific.com should be running faster than ever.

All our work has uncovered a new problem with the server that may or may not be faulty RAM. (I've checked, and it's certainly not the alluvial dampers.) So once again, I'm asking you to be patient with me and the site while we continue to investigate.

I'm still chronicling the problem, so I implore you, if you notice the site acting unusually sluggishly or erratically, please let me know. Either in the Boosterrific Forum (assuming that it is responding) or via email at webmaster at boosterrific dot com.

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