108773
« on: August 18, 2010, 06:22:21 PM »
The problems Lydia cites are normal, unfortunately. The forum doesn't have exclusive access to the MySQL server, so we have to compete for access with our host's many other sites that also access it. And if one of them is taking a long time to do whatever it's doing, well, we get bumped out. Thankfully, though, that's the sort of problem that shouldn't occur all that often (I've only seen it twice in the last year or so - though most recently last week) - but there's nothing that can be done from the forum's side of things to eliminate it. The only potential solution is for our hosts to add more MySQL servers - and I know that they already run several, so that's probably not in the cards in the near future.
As for Magnus' problem with freezing, I think I've mentioned before that that is most likely caused by using an older computer and Win98...