Yes - I again had the same sluggish behaviour as Neon at about the same time (with the forum and non-imcdb pages working fine). Tried something different this time and closed my browser for a couple of minutes, re-opened it and things were fine. No idea if it solved it or timing was a coincidence.

I'll try upgrading MySQL, that my solve some problems (either if they fix things in the new versions, or due to new options allowing to limit query execution time)

Is this meant to happen?

Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user 'imcdb'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in /home/www/imcdb/config_connection.php on line 22 Error in database request - Access denied for user 'imcdb'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Yes that's while I was upgrading MySQL/MariaDB.
Now it should work again (still in read-only).

Now you should be able to login again to make change, all should work, so please report any unusual behaviour or error message.
Also, I enabled an option to limit to 10 seconds database queries (usually they are executed in a few milliseconds, or 1 or 2 seconds in the worse case), I hope it should fix the slowdown/lockup problems that happened from time to time (but still to often).

I have often problems now with some full page ads that I get by browsing IMCDB.

ad problems should rather be reported on http://imcdb.opencommunity.be/forum_topic-8103-64428-Testing_a_new_ad_company.html#p64428
(if possible with details like screenshots and/or ad URLs)

Site seems slow tonight when making edits.

it seems to have encountered a slowdown at that time indeed, but still without real reason
(except potentially the old phpbb2 forum of my own site, which I should replace by a newer version)

Site was off (impossible to open any page) some minutes ago 28/02 23:35 circa

Indeed.
Some time ago I changed something that seemed to help (or at least less often people reported problems), I had to change it again for doing an update on the database, but maybe I'll put it back as it was a few weeks ago then, if it worked better.

I don't see the "site is locked because back-up is in progress" messages anymore antp? (Or maybe I just missed them)

Since long time now I do not lock anymore changes when doing the backup
I was doing that so all pics are exactly corresponding to the database backup. Now at each backup I do manually I take the nightly backup and copy the pics in the day, so in case I need to recover from it there may be a few pics too many or replacements missing (those made in the day of the backup), but not a big deal, as it is a "worse case situation" anyway.

D'accord. I knew things were under control.

Is it me or is the site really slow today? (It could be me, we had strong winds last night here, but editing it taking forever)

Fine here.

The forum ( just read my other comment and realized i forgot to specify.. ). I saw in another topic that you are aware of the problem so there is not really a need to discuss it..

i mention it bcause i thought that the forum's bug and the Charger one were related ( maybe they are, maybe not, maybe maybe.. )

For the forum, is it only in the past few days, or since longer?


I'm not aware of a current problem (*) so what you saw was maybe something else, mostly not related


(*) except that in average once a day the site - not the forum - may be unavailable for one minute, still something I have to solve

for the forum, only past few days ( never experienced that ' minute of silence ' from the main site )

what i meant by saying that you are aware of the forum's problem :
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Maybe you are aware of that server problem only but not the effect of it

Ah ok, I didn't know it was a reference to that (and it was posted in the private section, so I prefer not having it here in public, just in case of, I edited your post)
Well anyway we'll see, it should be better in the next days - to be followed.