Hey people! Haven't been around for a few days, been quite busy actually and I will be for the next two weeks. Two sites updating so far, but its stil early in the day, should be some more updates later on... See ya later!
One more (and hopefully the last for the foreseeable future) status update: the httpd has been upgraded and now no longer seems to be creating massive load we experienced over the last few days. The original problem is still a bit unclear (I have some ideas), but the problem appears to be fixed now.
To update upon the earlier post today, I've upgraded MySQL to 4.0.8 (gamma) and instituted a connection limit per MySQL user account. As such, the AG forum (or any other high mysql load site on the Depot Network server) will not be able to single-handedly take down mysqld.