As far as I can guess ... connection to and from your MySQL server is an issue, look into that why connection to MySQL server has to wait for 15 seconds.

All your image are loading fine e.g. http://www.hangin-out.net/images/misc/HO%20Rambo.jpg

Thats the thing. Even when the page loads, the avatars dont load immediately and attachments take seconds longer to load too. ITs not just the page loading time. Everything is slow. Posts take 10 seconds to post. Every click I make in the AdminCP takes 10 seconds to load. Everything

Avatar links are getting served via database hence delay.

Try loading ANY images on your website directly they load fast ... e.g. http://www.hangin-out.net/images/buttons/quote.gif

Check these two settings in php.ini .. if not -1 try setting them to -1 and restart your VPS.

mysql.max_persistent = -1
mysql.max_links = -1

Also check my.ini for max_connection or max_user_connections if they are there.


PS. Remember all the settings you change in case you need to revert them.

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Where might I find php.ini ?

Look. This problem you are having is going to continue as long as YOU allow it to continue. Let's look at it logically:

#1: You made NO changes at all just prior to the problems, correct? And there's been no hacking or defacing?

#2: Software and platforms and scripts don't get "tired" or wear out, or lose tolerance, or anything like that. If you don't alter it, it stays consistent.

MACHINES DO WEAR OUT, LOSE TOLERANCE, AND GET "TIRED." They also outright break.

You are on a MACHINE and the MACHINE is the problem, if #1 above is true.

It's really just this simple and no amount of worrying about php.ini files and other stuff that was NEVER CHANGED gets you any closer to ending this problem.

IT'S THE MACHINE! I have seen this about a dozen times the last 12 years. It is NEVER the vBulletin, when #1 above is true.

How about this. Let's try something really simple and easy to do: HAVE THEM PUT YOU ON A DIFFERENT MACHINE AND THEN WATCH THE PROBLEMS MAGICALLY DISAPPEAR.

Works every time it is tried, when the situation is as you have described and #1 above is true.

vbulletin will run stupidly slow in IIS if you have localhost as the hostname, you should change it to 127.0.0.1

It may help to move attachments from your database to your file system if they are being stored in the database. Check avatars, etc as well. This may help.

OP should also take a look at http://ozzmodz.com/showthread.php/25...Within-The-ACP :)