Dirk. If your bucket theory were true, then auctiva could add buckets.
i have longtime experience in data networking and here is my analogy; when there is too much traffic on a highway and there is a bottleneck every day then the city or state improves the infrastructure by adding additional lanes and expanding the highway. Magically additional lanes allows more traffic to flow.
A few years ago it seems Auctiva managed the traffic much better. Its no secret to those of who have been here a while that the user base seems to have diminished substantially (as evidenced by the lack of participation on forums and the disappearance of many forum activists).
What concerns me and may legitimize what you say, Dirk, is that since the acquisition by Alibaba some servers may have been retired and/or perhaps the network itself was downsized. Those are tremendous cost savings measures for Auctiva.
The question is (much like the post outage feedback and requests):
Auctiva how is this to be prevented from happening again? What measures is Auctiva taking?