When I started using CloudFlare I was very pleased to find that I have a much larger readership than I previously thought, turns out it’s around 1000 visitors a day. Unfortunately around the same time I started noticing some intermittent issues. It’s taken a while for my hosting provider to get back to me since I reported the issue, but it’s related to the increased traffic. I’ll be working on some site optimization and if that doesn’t take care of it, I may have to upgrade the account. Hang in there and I hope to have this resolved soon.

Update 05/10/12 12:41 AM: I have made a few of the recommended changes as far as plugins go. Next up will be optimizing the database….this should be fun. If you notice any new problems, let me know. If further availability issues occur you should be able to get the site by refreshing the page after 5 or 10 seconds and again, please let me know if you continue to experience this. The preferred method of contact for both issues at this time would be to comment to this post.

Update 05/11/12 11:12 PM: I’ve installed and configured WP Super Cache and WP Widget Cache, optimized the database, and removed unused plugins. I have also checked access logs and made sure the high resource utilization isn’t due to attacks. The performance improvements are quite noticeable and the stability seems to be improving. Please continue to watch for issues and report any and all issues you find here.