Now the host says that it's getting these errors in the error log and they must be the problem.  :roll:[01-Sep-2009 06:19:33] PHP Warning:&n...

It sounds like what's happening is you don't have enough connections being allowed, and some queries aren't able to connect right away ...

I've often thought a bunch of us with larger archives should get together and see what is/is not working, etc.In the meantime, our host's br...

Like I said, I don't know a lot about MySQL but my opinion/intuition tells me it's their database not allowing enough connections for whatev...

We use both, actually. We block bots from everything that isn't in the main directory. The .htaccess is more for images and the occasional hard t...

For us it was the bots accessing the stories folder that was  the problem. The way the stories are store makes it ridiculous to try to match chap...

Not necessarily. Database performance will only slow down if there are too many query transactions. We've actually hit the point where we're...

I think the efiction database is at about 150mb. It's a little hard to tell because my SMF uses the same database (total 3.2 GB) We store our tex...

I can test it on my test archive(s) if you like.

As far as I can tell, the only thing is the other admin had already banned the account on the forum side of our site. The forums aren't bridged t...

Yes we were.I just successfully locked an account via the profile page, and then had one that refused to lock. Another admin tried to lock 15 accounts...

Just the name of the category image. Like imagename.jpg. Whatever the image actually IS.