[Titania]

Originally Posted by pedigree

This error presents itself when a couple of things happen.
1. Your forum cant contact the remote database in the allowed period of time
2. Our database is down (cough, it happens, I blame Russ )
3. Youve exceeded the (newly implemented) limit of 5,000 queries in a 24 hour period (which is unlikely).

Are you using cURL for doing the queries? Its one of the options in vbStopForumSpam configuration. With cURL, you can control the timeout time window a little more but thats often at the cost of risks a "mysql has disapeared" error.

I am using cURL (as it was set by default).

Over the last week or two, things seem to have returned to normal and I'm no longer getting time outs so I'm a happy camper
As I mentioned earlier, this mod has saved me heaps of work removing spammers manually. Great work.