Hello!
As many of you know, the difficulties we had been having with the performance of the Ubuntu Forums have been very nearly fully resolved. Canonical significantly upgraded the server hardware used to host the Forums and we have enjoyed nearly problem free operation since. We are very grateful to Canonical for the time and expense involved in restoring the Forums to an appropriate level of performance.
Unfortunately, a component of one of the application servers was found to be faulty and has ceased to function properly. The vendor has been contacted and new hardware is expected to arrive on or about Wednesday, March 15. This means that we may encounter some minor transient performance issues until that machine is brought back online. With any luck, we may encounter nothing at all.
These things happen. Please bear with us for a short time longer!
Thanks!
The Ubuntu Forums Staff