We experienced some database issues this morning that may have caused problems with the website and ranking tools for several hours. The immediate issues have been sorted out and we're looking into prevention.

On the technical side of things, we're seeing performance issues with our sessions database as traffic grows. We're serving up millions of hits now and sometimes have several thousand session transactions occurring within an hour - or worse, minutes!

Hopefully this little bump in the road will help us gear up for the growth we'll be seeing in 2010.