WickedFire running slow?



Well it running slow is better than it being down like it was a few weeks ago for 1-2days
 
Irony would be if it's slow these days due to XRumer spam bots. I have some forums and it seems there are more and more of them every day. They rarely get through my anti-bot precautions but it doesn't stop them from continuously trying. At some point they'll be much like a DDoS attack.
 
Same with me it took minutes to open another thread..
I'm wondering whats happening to WF?
 
this brings me to a question, is wf making use of only one db for all its members? Or are all the members bifurcated onto different servers? A friend of mine was asking about whether big websites made use of only a single db? Or were there many db's handling smaller amount of the load?
 
It's been bad for weeks, but today I give up. I'm only testing this thread to see how long it takes to post.

edit: Took about five minutes to post this... got about ten 500 errors, multiple "you are posting too fast" messages (wtf?), and a few time outs.
 
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well it looks like something got updated because it seems to b pretty snappy (for WF) today