Site Timing out when posting

[faeronsayn]

When posting threads or just a quick reply, my site seems to time out.

it does not seem to be a server fault since my server load is very minimal at around 0.60 ave. So I am not sure what is actually causing this, some times I go into a couple of threads and post, and it posts fine, but other times and most of the time its timing out, and I'd need to refresh to see my post.

If anyone has a solution please let me know!

 

[SneakyDave]

No, that's the problem, one user has had the problem sporadically, using Chrome 16, just from "liking" a post. I was just comiserating with the "server did not respond in time" error people to see if anybody else has a similar problem.

Emails aren't sent when "likes" are registered are they? I don't think so. I'm using nginx too, on a smaller VPS, but haven't seen any problems in munin with performance.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Emails aren't sent when "likes" are registered are they?

Nope.

I say ignore it unless the user can give you something more concrete to work with. It may be something simple like a spotty internet connection.

 

[SneakyDave]

I'm using Cloud Flare too, so that's another point of failure that needs to be looked at, thanks for the information Jake.

 

[Digital Doctor]

What I do is run a local copy of Exim which PHP sends the mail to directly (basically a fire and forget about it). Then Exim runs a queue runner every 5 mins and offloads the mail to my smarthost. This way PHP doesn't timeout as Exim is always running.

http://www.exim.org/

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.

http://www.exim-new-users.co.uk/
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html (Revision 4.77 - 10 Oct 2011).

 

[Deebs]

http://www.exim.org/

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.

http://www.exim-new-users.co.uk/
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/index.html (Revision 4.77 - 10 Oct 2011).

Not sure what you are saying here, I know what Exim is having used it for several years. I prefer it as my MTA over any of the other ones available.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Not saying anything.
While you are here . . . . . Wondering how hard it was to setup / What your setup is.
Others will want to know how to set it up.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Brogan has an AdminCP tweak that could help:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/limit-number-of-emails-sent-per-hour-email-throttling.6486/

 

[Digital Doctor]

Anyone using an EXIM solution for email ?

 

[Fred.]

I've had the same problem. But my firewall was blocking the outgoing traffic on TCP 465 (I'm using an external smtp server to send mail)
I opened the port and Problem solved