Thanks for your response

we use
mysql5
php5
windows server (specifically CS New Media)

the installation is defaulted, just with a new skin

Quite simply, the serendipity blog falls over when traffic is very high.

I can't really give details about the url as I'm sure you understand

Hi

We are using serendipity for one of our websites. Today we posted a new article on the site and it has received a lot of traffic.

The News section has become completely unresponsive. This has happened a number of times before during high traffic. Our latest post is very important so we can't ...