Today I was doing some work on preparing the NEW infrastructure for na-mic; but NOT the live website. So, I don’t know what today’s problem was related to or caused by. In general, I know that there are some intervals of time when scheduled backup jobs take place which produce a “site down” effect because there aren’t enough resources for Apache to respond. I don’t have good visibility into the backup system or those jobs.
Thanks! I have the feeling that for some reason the speed of the site is very variable, and sometimes it decreases to the not responding state. I’ll try to pay closer attention and let you know if there is something worth mentioning.