Sorry, but everyone will have similar issues right now because, as we've done many times in the past, our "flood control" level for posting in the forums has been increased from 30 to 90 seconds. This is a method of controlling the frequency of posting during peak times that is used by forums around the net as needed.
The reason it is used at least sometimes, if not all the time, is to help a web server cope with not just high traffic loads, but even more, high activity levels. When CelticsBlog is experiencing a combination of high traffic and high activity it can overload the server. That in turn will put it offline for everyone. We are going to try to keep that from happening.
So, everyone take a deep breath and slow down your mouse-clicking and posting. Again, I'm sorry we have to do this, but sometimes we have to in order to keep things going. The hardest thing the CB web server ever has to endure is hundreds or thousands of people over here clicking and posting frantically around this place. It can only handle that up to a point.
During these playoffs we will most likely keep the 90 second posting limit in place most if not all of the time. The reason for that is because we simply can't tell when people are going to flood CB with both numbers and activity during these intense times. During the last Atlanta game, we literally went from a couple of hundred relatively calm people here to over 600 who were clicking around at unbelievable rates in a matter of a couple of minutes.
The result was extreme server overload and one temporary shutdown after another for awhile until I could adjust posting rates and other parameters here to cope with the load. So we all have to understand that this server has limits and just slow down some when things are busy here. Having 600 people on CB is not a problem. Having 600 who are sending a million SQL queries to the server per minute are.