The website has been responding slowly and failing to connect all morning. The root cause appears to be some connectivity problems withing the datacenter at Linode, preventing connections between the primary servers and the database. The Linode status page for the issue is here https://status.linode.com/ but there isn’t much additional context provided there.
I’ll update this thread when more info becomes available.
Update 12:51 CDT:
Looks like the network is up and running again. I have disabled the status page, and the site appears to be responding normally. Thanks for your patience everyone, and please let me know if you encounter any further issues.
Update from Linode says they have resolved the connection problems, but we are still having network issues between server, and have filed a ticket with their support:
