I have been getting constant forum outages today, seems the hardware on the vanilla forums cloud is not quite up for the job.
I've often been getting either a notice saying they are under too much load, or just complete time outs.
Reflects pretty poorly vanilla's cloud infrastructure, or perhaps poor judgement by ZoS in not selecting an enterprise ready solution. Poor judgement may well be the case, check their
pricing it seems aimed at much smaller deployments. I would expect that a forum like this would exceed 3M page views in way less than an hour.
FYI on the outsourcing of these,
> forums.elderscrollsonline.com
Server: dns
Address: 127.0.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: vip.cl500.vanilladev.com
Address: 50.57.30.128
Aliases: forums.elderscrollsonline.com
eso.vanillaforums.com