This is interesting information, thanks for the heads up.

It confirms what was already suspected, ie SE taken by surprise by the runaway success and are now very busy scrambling to make the infrastructure meet the demands. It can be argued that SE should have prepared for this contingency, but that is water under the bridges now.

Next week new server infrastructure will be added, and things will hopefully be better. Maybe they can offer us a "I survived 1017" t-shirt.