[PathfinderWiki] Performance issues & upcoming maintenance

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tl;dr: Have PathfinderWiki, StarfinderWiki, or PFO Wiki been really slow or inaccessible lately? We're trying to get to the bottom of it, and we'll also do some intensive wiki maintenance on the weekend of June 24. Please hang tight until then, and send me a message if the wiki is completely inaccessible!

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I've gotten several reports from the last week or two that PathfinderWiki/StarfinderWiki/PFO Wiki have either appeared to be down or extraordinarily slow, especially for editing. The issues seem to be intermittent, not related to the amount of traffic the site's getting, and not consistently occurring for all users, making this a different problem than we've had to deal with in the past.

While I try to whittle down the potential reasons why this is happening, the wiki might be intermittently slow to access, unavailable, or set to read-only access.

If the wiki is inaccessible for you for more than 5 minutes, please send me a message with the date and time it's down (and your location or time zone) so I can try to connect some of these dots with server status reports, or escalate them to our service provider.

Also, the wiki server itself is overdue for some infrastructure upgrades. We'll lock down wiki editing for some or all of the weekend of June 24 and move traffic over to a backup server while we deploy those updates.

We've scheduled this as best we can to align with our work schedules while trying not to disrupt PaizoCon or Gen Con, but I know this will potentially affect games somewhere around the world. I'm sorry in advance if that happens—we're doing what we can to limit that potential effect as much as possible, and with any luck we won't go long without at least read-only access to a very recent copy of wiki content.

In addition to the under-the-hood improvements we'll get from this upgrade, this will also include some necessary updates to our wiki theme (including a design refresh), and if our testing lines up with reality some serious and long-overdue improvements to the wiki's across-the-board performance.

Thanks for your patience and ongoing support of the wiki family.

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Update: Looks like we've at least got a workaround in place. Let us know if the site misbehaves, but both availability and response times have improved considerably in the last week. Maintenance is still on for this weekend, however.

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Bumping as a reminder that the wiki will undergo some maintenance tomorrow. Things might look weird or be unavailable while we work through it. Apologies again if this inconveniences anyone!

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Maintenance is done! The new site layout is also live, along with new forums.

We'll keep tinkering, and if you spot any issues after the update, please let me know in this thread, via DM, or at the wiki.