Hanging when posting, only on posters end

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Jx80
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Hanging when posting, only on posters end

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I'm running 3.3.3

I have a strange problem that started today. When a user makes a post and hits submit, it is hanging on their end, but showing up for everyone else. Meanwhile, the user who posted just gets a time out error. Disabling board wide emails seems to fix it, but that is not a long term solution.

On cPanel, I can also see posting is also suddenly using a lot of processes. This all started this morning.

Does anyone know what is going on here? Is it trying to send out emails to addresses which are no longer valid?
Last edited by Mick on Wed May 29, 2024 11:28 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Hanging when posting, only on posters end

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Jx80 wrote: Tue May 28, 2024 9:35 pmThis all started this morning
Can we assume you did nothing to cause the issue? That being the case the only other possibility is your host has done something, can you ask them if they’ve changed anything?

Look in who is online and click ’display guests’ to see of you’ve got a lot of bots trawling your board.

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Re: Hanging when posting, only on posters end

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Correct, I didn’t change anything. It was a user who emailed me to alert me to the issue.

It ended up being a DNS issue on the hosts end. They had it fixed quickly. Thankfully my host has excellent tech support.

While we’re on the topic, will phpBB ever feature being able to disable specific email notifications? As of now it’s all or nothing. It would be handy to be able to shut off topic/post subscription emails but still allow new user registration emails, etc.
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Re: Hanging when posting, only on posters end

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Jx80 wrote: Wed May 29, 2024 10:29 amWhile we’re on the topic but sliding off . . .
To suggest feature requests you should post in the ideas forum.
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