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Recently Set up on to our new server, it's relatively decent spec 2x intel xeon 5318Y w/ 256GB ram on cpanel/WHM. Have around 5 busyish forums and 10 not so busy. But nothing majorly busy. Probably 150 posts a day per forum. Also all back ups are done at 3am as well. It seems that at certain times of the day (not fixed times) the sever goes from being spritely to slow for 2 of the busiest forums only. The other sites are still accessible and still reasonably fast to access. When this happens I sit back and try and look through the processes in WHM and when i check the Show database processes, then these seem to have built up a longer list of processes and I do notice Creating sort index has long wait times. So I am assuming that this indexing is causing a queue?. I have checked apache workers and these seem to be fine. No error pages, Just hangs and takes about a minute to access the site. It does not go to an error page, just hangs waiting. I have already increased apache workers when the server was set up. The MariaDB is box standard, I have not made any changes, although i did try what was suggested within the editor and these made it slightly worse when indexing. MariaDB is an upgrade from Mysql5, and so some of the tables are also MyISAM (looking to change to Innodb soon) How can i improve the Indexing time and would i need to do a Mysql optimisation tweaks on my.cnf and which area should i concentrate on to help indexing? As you can tell I am not a server tech, i have dabbled in this stuff for years but just never dabbled enough 🙂 Does anyone have any suggestions please?

Would Almalinux 9 be compatible with invision?? Just checking as about to migrate across. thanks

I found it Edit Forum // Edit Display Settings // Enable Solved thanks

Hi Daniel I am having issues finding this on our self-hosted version... latest version installed

ahh yes, thanks Daniel.. i did recall this a while back thinking this would be a solution but forgot about it. I will enable this. thanks

We have a spate of one time posters posting a question, viewing the answer then disappearing and some of the team are getting annoyed by this (rightfully so) A colleague and I have been talking about this for years and I was wondering if anyone had every some a plugin / app to email topic authors to respond to answers to their posts with at least a Thanks? (typically british don't you know lol) Does anyone have a solution how to get round this? how to encourage them in an automated sense? Cheers

A while back i was talking to a guy who uses the darkweb and buys account access to brands like Costa, Starbucks,netflix etc. They buy access to the account and take advantage of the points. For instance the account could have 5 free coffee's and they sell the account for £3.. 5 coffees for £3 is a good deal. Same situation kind of. They will sell lists of accounts which is probably come from a combination of user browser history and their email and the user using the same password everywhere. They probably use a tool to verify this data and make a nice tasty list to sell.

i gave fiddled witht he prefork a couple of times carefully.. may give it another go as our server is pretty big should be able to handle quite a bit. Cleantalk we have banned out certain countreis from registering, that worked a treat and now get very little RU and CN if any. But need to ban them out from the server completely. Will have a go this afternoon and see how it goes.

ok bud.. i seem to have too many ip's and read they piggy back many networks including amazon aws. so its tricky. having 15 forums you can imagine they are everywhere, so need a proper solution. I have banned off ahref bot as well.. they are really bad for me. Just researching CleanTalk app which plugs in to the communties, noticed they have a firewall solution so may look in to that

@dutchsnowden Hey bud, how did you get rid of the bytedance in the end?.. finding it hard to get rid of and causing me no end of problems. thanks

thanks adriano.. amazing never knew that exsisted

thanks Sonya

Hi Is it possible to block profile pages been seen by non members? Need to be logged in to view? thanks

We use sendgrid and it's great. Much more reliable than phpmail or smtp. most notificatons arrive using sendgrid.

I am also stumped why the marketplace or at least a directory of available plugins and apps is no longer available. Not like the older days when it was easy to find a solution to certain things within minutes. wish you luck in the future Martin!