Let me update on what is going on:
1. This is a major hardware upgrade for us. Along with a server migration. While we thought we had covered all our bases, unfortunately we ran into some compatibility issues with the hardware that caused unexpected crashes. We have been working hard to fix them.
2. There are still some issues with the memory allocation and usage which we are working day and night to address.
3. And finally, today's downtime was due to a software fault (basically an Apache web server upgrade without a critical module being enabled)
I know its frustrating, but we are trying hard to bring things back to normal. The whole idea was to increase responsiveness of TE as a site and make it faster. We will continue to work on that front.