All.
The recent downtime has been for a couple of reasons:
- Softlayer have been making some updates to our servers. Though this downtime was perhaps 3min at most.
- We're been testing some new caching algorithm, however these are designed to make the system faster not slower. These changes have been turned off for now, just incase these are causing the problem.
- High usage is the most likely problem. And is probably due to certain users exceeding their allowance (currently 3000 equations/day). Following a more details audit over the last month usage a large number of excessive users are likely to be barred.
- Next week you'll see a new UI design, a simply change to the colours and alignments.
- Within the next month we'll be releasing a completely rewritten UI, which is both faster to load and very customisable.
- Also this month we'll be releasing a new backend rendering engine, which in tests is at least 10x faster than the current system.