For the past two days I have been unable to enter my player housing in the Lavender Beds. Upon each attempt I am greeted with an error message telling me that due to extreme server load I cannot leave the area.

Are the housing servers truly so taxed with the expansion? Are they on the same servers as the dungeon instances or something? It's fairly annoying to be locked out of the home I have spent so much time and effort building.

I suspect that SE lowered the housing instance capacity in order to push the dungeon and solo instance capacity higher, and this may be the direct result. That's just an empty theory, but whatever the reason I'd love to know why I cannot enter my own house. I find it incredibly hard to believe that many players are in their houses at the same time that the housing instances are full.