Sunday November 11, 2018 the Mushroom Observer database server was upgraded from 4 CPU cores to 6 CPU cores and the available RAM was doubled.
Around November 22, Alan Rockefeller analysed the logs to see what the impact was. He compared the previous week to the entire month of October 2018 and found:
Average time to respond to requests pre-upgrade: 2.29117 seconds (every request in October averaged)
Average time to respond to requests post-upgrade: 1.57632 seconds (every request in the past week averaged)