Thread:FauxCerf/@comment-26818419-20151025001127/@comment-26143371-20151109213941

In this case it is both...Due to the amount of pageviews not every request can be fetched from the database directly. So when a page is processed, the result is stored (cached) and then served to the next viewer. And in this specific case there went something wrong with the cache...(note that this is simplified, if you went through the threads between FauxCerf and me, you would find a link somewhere explaining it in more precisely).