Board Game Arena

Just want to acknowledge that I was wrong, and found a way to witness this through our limited lens. If you go to the SQL pane and run "SHOW DATABASES", then turn profiling on then (at time of writing) you get about a 5 second period spent "executing".

I suspect the problem is in phpMyAdmin, and would try isolating this by running some simple queries (just SELECT * FROM small_table would do) on the server's SQL command line. When I perform a SELECT * FROM a_game_table the SQL engine ends in a tiny fraction of a second, but the page takes a long ti...