Last night there were problems with the main auth server as a update process took all cpu resources. Once the source was identified (As it nocked out a major MySQL DB, all seemed to return to normal.
We did a full server reboot this morning, so lets see how it goes.
2:34am in the morning ,,,,working like a charm now(and,,,NO, i don't sleep,,lol) fast loading web pages and posting on forums etc, perhaps many ppl using the service towards "end of month" causes slight degradation