I wanted to update everyone that I've purchased the new servers today. The timing couldn't be better as we had 3 outages last night. To mitigate the pain until the new servers are ready, I've had to disable a few features that are crippling us. Specifically, the external game database and image uploads. I hate to do this, but we have to reduce load temporarily and those two areas are heavy hitters.
As the servers are provisioned, we'll be taking the site offline occasionally to move databases, etc. I just want to state this upfront so the downtime isn't a surprise. Because my schedule is sure to be hectic in the coming weeks due to a baby and work deadline, the downtime may be at very random times when I can get the work done.