The server did not respond in time

[Brax]

Me and many of my forum members are getting this error when we try to post, preview and/or edit my forums. I've already put

$config['enableMail'] = 0;

into the config file but it's not helping. Many people are complaining of this so any help would be much appreciated.

 

[Digital Doctor]

You are on a shared server.
It could be someone else on the shared server that is draining resources.
Contact your webhost about the issue.

At this stage, if you dont want to give your website's URL ... you should open a ticket and reference this thread.

http://xenforo.com/customers/support

 

[Wildcat Media]

You are on a shared server.
It could be someone else on the shared server that is draining resources.

Not that I have ever done that on a shared account...

Good point. It could be a server "neighbor" slowing others down.

 

[Brax]

The webhost just checked things out, even submitting a few test posts and they say all is well on their end. I've submitted a ticket.

 

[Brax]

It seems to be working again once I ran a check and repair on all db tables, even though the check said all tables were OK.

A note about turning off email notifications in the config file: This shuts off ALL email notifications, including account activation emails (if you have it enabled). This caused me a great amount of grief and stress as I had about two dozen people sign up that couldn't complete the process since they didn't get the activation email.

 

[Digital Doctor]

This caused me a great amount of grief and stress as I had about two dozen people sign up that couldn't complete the process since they didn't get the activation email.

2 dozen is alot .. sounds like you have a great forum !
Even worse would be if you had no registration problems.

"ran a check and repair on all db tables"
was that through phpmyadmin ?

 

[Brax]

was that through phpmyadmin ?

No, it was through the MySQL Databases tab in the webhost's cPanel. I guess the same thing could be done through phpMyAdmin though....

 

[Brandon Sheley]

FWIW I just got the same error message here several times and couldn't post the reply I wanted

Here is a screenshot of that reply..
I'm not sure what it was in my post but it just would not post no matter how many times I tried..
Maybe the same thing is happening on the OP's site?
Are the users who are getting the error able to make a smaller post, just like a few dots?.... like that?
You can see the part above the quote that I was able to post, the part below the quote was just not going to work.

 

[Digital Doctor]

FWIW I just got the same error message

Can you put that entire post that causes the error message in a [co de] link here ? (I'll play with it).

 

[Brandon Sheley]

I don't have it copied anymore or I would
You can see it above, basically everything after the quote is what I had originally tried to add in the quick reply box. (starting with "ok, I've not experienced... and going to Chevys?")
The link was to this thread on minerz site
http://minerskinz.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6654

 

[Digital Doctor]

Test

https://www.google.com/search?q=admin+forums

 

[Digital Doctor]

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[Brandon Sheley]

ya I don't know what part did it but I tried to post that about 5 times before I gave up.

 

[Brax]

Old thread but I ran into the same issue Brandon. I had a member swearing up and down that if he tried to create a new thread or reply to one, it would spit out an error. I can't remember the exact error now but come to find out it was due to him copy/pasting his text from MS Word into the text field. Weird!