For some reason, comments are taking AGES to post and in some cases the server is timing out so commenters get a “problem loading page” error message instead of seeing their comment posted. Annoying. But even though it looks like nothing happens, the comments do get here onto the relevant page.

I’ve contacted my web people about this who *insist* that everything is fine, but clearly it’s not. It might be something to do with the database- maybe it refreshes *all* the comments after a new one is posted, and given that there are now over 1000 comments here at PH, it might be a strain on the server. I’ll have a good google search and see if there’s anything I can do.

In the meantime, sorry

**edit** it might be to do with blog pings which is my blog notifying other servers to tell them a new post has been made…if one of them is having a bad day then it can mess things up here. More info. I’ll try to get this sorted out tonight.