We are trying to narrow down the issue which is causing the lag. Please forgive us as we are going to need to do a bunch of reboots as we work out what is causing the issue.
We rebooted tonight with what we hope will be an easing of the symptoms. That said, there are still issues on the machine that can't be accounted for in our code. We are still talking to our provider to see if we can get this rectified.
Sorry, I somehow must have not compiled the change, and so we still have the offender in the code. I've recompiled and are rebooting us again.
In the future, please do not disconnect and reconnect hoping that will improve things. It doesn't, it actually seems to make things worse for everyone. And please, if you can, take a break tonight and go do something else.
Sorry about the troubles.
Our provider is offering to move us to a new, faster machine. Our IP will change but all data will transfer over.
This is scheduled to happen at 11am tomorrow, June 20th, 2012. We will be bringing Armageddon down around 10:45am. The transfer could last 2 or more hours before Armageddon is back up. So go check out a book or rent a movie or two to watch tomorrow in the early afternoon.
This is going on right now.
The Game and website are both unavailable until the move completes, hopefully somewhere in the next 2-3 hours.
We will post the new IP as soon as we get it and get everything set up to run again.