Resource intensive processes?

[LTS]

Last night, around midnight (-5 GMT), I was making changes to my website when things began to really crawl. Thinking it was something I had altered in the code or in the framework configuration I set upon a path of tediously waiting 5 minutes at a time in some cases for a page to pop up.

After about 45 minutes I finally reverted all changes. Of course the problem was still happening. It was random and occurred in places that used code that I never altered or in places where the configuration had not changed. I opened a live chat and was told that the web server was not having a problem. This may be, but the MSSQL server might have been.

In any event, I was tired and went to bed only slightly annoyed that my website had issues.

This morning I just logged in and the site is screaming again. I've changed nothing and no one else has access to. I have now begun implementing the changes I made last night and still no problems. This begs the question...

What was going on last night that caused this?

Any information that can be provided would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Stephen]

Hello,

I was online at the time you came on livechat, I even looked up the server performance for the tech, it had over 2GB Free ram and was running at 6% cpu usage when you came in, and the averages for it were less than 10% for the previous hour. I am unsure what you had, maybe it was a routing issue between your ISP and our server?

 

[LTS]

Certainly a potential issue I suppose. After that frustration and being that late I never thought to check the performance by accessing via my VPN connection elsewhere.

Thank you for the response. It was a very strange issue and since the move to the new server the site has been screaming so I was quite reluctant to blame the server (which is why I backed out all my code changes, etc.).