I don't recall too many issues last week. Just the usual late afternoon/evening sluggishness

Was it less slow the week before? As there were no comment here

Site has been slow all day long now, at least the last 8 hours or so.

yes, i can.
At first i thought it was from my computer but every other websites that i'm used to visit were working fine

But now you can access it normally?

same here, i got " délai d'attente dépassé " while trying to get here or access a page when i could reach about half an hour ago

The site was so slow that it was unreachable this morning.
I noticed in the logs an Indian IP address that was accessing a lot of heavy pages. So I blocked that address, it seems to work better right now, but it was most likely not the cause of all performance problems.
I see a lot of bots in the logs. It is incredible the number of bots for search engines that there are, though that everyone uses Google (or a little Bing). What a waste of resources

Site almost at standstill. Long delays trying to upload entries or just getting pages to load. 18:05 UK time.

Edit: comes and goes - standstill for 10 minutes, then 20 minutes running OK (or maybe a bit slow), then stops again. Just like rush-hour on Glasgow motorway ...

Site is crawling. Can’t update or access pages with 30 second delay. 6:11 EST.

It's the mid-afternoon slowdown. Site is crawling, can't approve things. 15:16 EST-US.