[Meta] Is AskLibO slowing to a crawl?

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"What can be done to improve the response times and performance of this site?"

In large part, that depends on the system resources devoted to ask.lo.

A month ago I began to experience similar delays to those reported by the OP. I sent an email to the address on the page in each case. The emails were responded to by the Executive Director. We had a short exchange across a period of days.

Eventually s/he copied messages to other LO workers and, eventually, more cpu was devoted to ask.lo & there has been almost no repeat of those problems (apart from a South Korean spam-attack) (plus, recently, it has repeated a little).

If you get a "Service Unavailable" or other page with an address to report the problem, then do so. Be polite, try to be helpful. Nobody can know everything, and especially if no-one speaks up.

If this helps then please tick the answer (✔)
...and/or show you like it with an uptick (∧)

@David - I get the mail from Website Team and can assure you that they are working always hard when there is a site problem. Why does the problem happen in the first case? I don't know and consider that the team in charge know what needs to be done.

Maybe you subscribe to these mail to see what is going on when there is a problem.