i.e. What scheduled task was running when cron.php decided to go slow-mo on you?
Yeah exactly what I was thinking. Have you recently added a new cron job to either vBulletin or your server? Or installed a new mod you did not have before? A mod could be the culprit putting too much strain on the cron job on your server.
They are auto post twice a day (4 total) TIL posts from reddit and NASA RSS feeds.
And I posted all the replies from you guys on my ticket with my host and this is the reply back. They basically say the site loads really fast and then there is a 10-16 second delay. Im not sure the webpagetest results show that?
Quote:
I wasn't able to find any cause for this on server side. Server
load and memory usage are consistently low (near 0 all the time) and hardware
node your VPS is located on is also under minimum load.
Website momentarily
loads really fast and most of times load time is around 12 - 16 seconds.
Unfortunately we weren't able to find any cause for such slowness on
server side and we can only advise you to have web developer check scripts on
account to find what is causing this.
If you need us to tweak or modify
anything from server side we will gladly assist you.