BWE server problems?

[Aaron&Julie]

We've had a lot problems viewing and posting lately on this website. It seems to hang a lot. Anyone else notice this problem?

[Iceman]

dammit Aaron it took forever for your post to open :D

There have been times lately when it took FOREVER. I'll pass on the information. :D

[kareem korn]

I've had the same problem. Alot of spam also.

[vellocity]

has anyone have a reason why the pages hang when i try to go through the forum??

i just thought it was my Safari(mac)..

the last week has been extremely slow for me.. must be the good fishing!!

[pchen911]

I guess this is for the admin...

The phpBB forum that I run had the same problem with spam for a while.

Until I went into the SQL server (not just the phpBB admin panel) and manually deleted all the spam message and suspected spammers. I just wanted an easier way to clear the junk at the time... Once I did that, all the spam stopped at once. I don't know what it is... but think that perhapse there might be a seed account in there that is used by the spammers to track active phpBB forums.

Now my site has been cleared of spam and spammers for several months now. I can't explain why it worked, but thought it may be of some help.