Took the main news root off the Californai machines and brought it back to good old Blighty.

Going to fix it here, on my kitchen table. Got the hammers.

Will send it back in a couple of hours, I hope. 7:07:42 pm

I'm knackered, need to have some fresh air, so taking daughter off to big park for a few hours, when I get back this afternoon, I'll do that shutting down of just the news site. Maybe it'll make it faster, I think squishing the other databases has helped today.

So probably around 4.00pm till about 6.00pm the news site will show only a place holder.

Gave up with the save as. It went through most of them OK, which took 40 minutes, then heroes root was running at 105 minutes... These things I've seen take several hours. Decided to quit out, and take it off the machine, bring it here, and do the squish, send it back, and reinstall.

But that'll have to be after I got some shut eye.

BTW: it's running nicely now... Lower volume, quick page loads. Maybe some of you shouldn't access it at lunch time, stay up till gone midnight, better then.

Well things are back to normal on the concurrent threads thing, I can hit my site once more, been quiet for an hour or so now

For all of you out there who know about this page...

90 minute outage

I'm doing a save as copy, squishing all the nastiness out.It'll come back within 90 minutes with nice new clean databases. See if that cures some woes tomorrow.