Performance
The good news is that the marketing is still going really well and we’re adding users and traffic at a splendid rate.
The bad news is that the server isn’t coping that well. Although I have made some major improvements the homepage is still taking an unacceptable time to appear. Today, I tried running ab locally on the server and the performance still stank so it’s not a network issue.
According to ‘top’ it is Python that is hogging the CPU so my suspicision is that the source of the problem lies there. But really I’m going to have to get some decent profiling system up and running so I can find out what the problem is.