Whatever the technical detail of what's preciptiating a particular outage, the root problem is almost certainly that Perlmonks is such a great site it gets a lot of use. Well, as we know, Perl is optimised for developer time rather than CPU, memory or anything else... so the solution to that problem is
$RAM->buy('more');
... and how can this happen? Why, by monks following
this link.
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George Sherston