The site was essentially ususable for me yesterday. From Firefox, I got timeouts (after 30 seconds); using GET from the command line ..

tab@music4:~ 16:16:13 $ time !!
time HEAD https://perlmonks.org/
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:17:20 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "a347-616284ad46c31"
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 41799
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:16:10 GMT
Client-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:17:20 GMT
Client-Peer: 66.39.54.27:443
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=Sectig
+o Limited/CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: 
Client-SSL-Cipher: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
Client-SSL-Socket-Class: IO::Socket::SSL


real    0m59.471s
user    0m0.171s
sys     0m0.028s
tab@music4:~ 16:17:20 $ time HEAD https://perlmonks.org/
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:37:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "a45f-616288c0b1b9e"
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 42079
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:34:24 GMT
Client-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:37:08 GMT
Client-Peer: 66.39.54.27:443
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /C=GB/ST=Greater Manchester/L=Salford/O=Sectig
+o Limited/CN=Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: 
Client-SSL-Cipher: TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
Client-SSL-Socket-Class: IO::Socket::SSL


real    1m10.827s
user    0m0.172s
sys     0m0.024s
tab@music4:~ 16:37:08 $
[download]

.. I got responses after over a minute. There was some discussion on IRC (#perl), with the conclusion that the DB server was unwell.

The site is live now, but I'm seeing response times in the 35-40 seconds range, which suggests there's still something happening that's slowing things down.