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If you noticed it was just slow, then congrats as that was very observant (only affected 20% of all requests!).
It appears that my TFL API for the boris bike data is popular. Like... holy shit sweet mother of pearl... popular.
I've stopped it from updating right now, and will instead bring online another server tonight just to do the TFL stuff.
This is the opposite of what TFL do, if they have a service that is popular (such as tube times) they take the API offline. What I'll do as clearly some people have made iPhone apps or the like which point to my API is that I'll just scale my API up to take the load.
Fun times.
I'll work to make sure it doesn't affect the server is the key point.