The end solution is that we moved the entire setup to Acquia. For a variety of reasons, this made things 2-2.5x faster. It took us a while to figure out what the issues/solution may be, but that's the long and short of it.
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Neil Ticktin
Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MacTech Magazine
Editor-in-Chief/Publisher, MacNews
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