Right now, the Web is experiencing the largest brute force attack in history. The attack is targeting Web sites running WordPress. FTM isn't using WordPress (obviously), but it's possible some WordPress sites live in the same data center and use the same database servers we're using, which would account for the strange intermittent slowdowns.
This is why we can't have nice things.
(Edited to add) And now I'm seeing it. Reloading this thread took 15 seconds.
Happy Christmas eve, everyone! I'm spending it in front of my computer trying to mitigate this attack rather than wrapping Christmas presents.
