I’ve made a couple of changes which I hope will help out with the server slowdowns. The first is that the usersonline numbers (used in “Where are the hyenas†and at the bottom of all the main HC pages are now updated every 5 minutes rather than every time someone refreshes the page. You’ll notice that the total number of users online seems higher than in the past. That’s because, as I dug into the code, I realized I had an error in how that number was calculated in the past. So this one is more accurate 
I also took a few of our sellers and put them in a separate database on their own. Hopefully this will keep the load on all the databases evened out and will prevent slowdowns for everyone else, even when these stores are heavily traficked.
Finally, I believe I’ve resolved the issue with lottery and auction sales showing up in shoppers’ purchase histories. They should show up there now (new sales, not the older ones). Also note, with HC Multi, that order will only appear in the shoppers’ and the sellers’ order lists after the shopper has revisited the shop, placed the item in their cart and checked out. This is to allow the shopper the opportunity to add a few more things from the seller’s store and check out with everything at once.
Thanks everyone!