The time I wrote earlier may be off by an hour for part of the year due to Daylight Saving vs. Standard time. Forgot to mention that

We did experience a database corruption last weekend (discussed here) which caused hanging, lockouts and error messages for *everyone* for an extended period of time (36+ hours). However, that situation had nothing to do per se with this daily automated db update/indexing.

I don't really have a suggestion other than to avoid trying to post during the daily slowdown period, especially if you know that it's happening at the same time every day. Sigh.

Doreen