I've gotten some PMs about the occasional site freeze that happens once a day.
This happens because the database is doing a optimization of the tables in order to speed up the site. As our database is pushing over 4GB, that takes a bit of time, generally about five minutes, more or less.
The site watches the number of users and when that drops below a certain point, about 25 or so, then the optimization kicks in and the site goes unresponsive for a time.
I know this is a pain, but for the sake of keeping the database as slim as possible, we need to do this.
FYI, as it was asked about...
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