"Experiencing unusual high traffic" + libsyn.com stats slow loads

There are 2 issues to report on. First, there have been intermittent database errors this evening resulting in this error message for users attempting to login to libsyn.com and to visitors to libsyn blog pages and rss feeds. The engineering team continues to monitor the servers closely and take necessary measures to prevent these errors from occurring again. Media delivery, stats tracking, ad serving, and libsynPRO where not affected by these database errors.

Second, there were some upgrades made today to the libsyn.com stats display system to improve compatibility with Firefox 3.0. This code change caused some temporary issues for some users loading their stats. There was no interruption in stats collection or processing during this time- only an unusually slow load time.

Both issues have been resolved.