Sorry about that.
[12:21 PM: I don’t know if there’s much point to finally getting published a post that tried to explain why the site was so slow when the only reason that I’m able to publish the post is because the site is no longer slow, but it occurs to me that historians might find it helpful if I do.
Yes, I really am that arrogant. I find it soothing.]
Don’t underrate post-mortem documentation. You’ll find it useful should something like this happen again.