[Fixed!] Slowness recently

@teebling Could you tell us what was wrong on the backend side of things? I'm just learning to work with backend in PHP at work right now and I'd be curious to hear about it. :lol:

To tell you the truth mate I have no idea.

I did a few things backend and any one of them could have fixed the issue:

Changed PHP version to 7.1 CGI, killed off PHP processes, changed PHP version back to original 7.2 FastCGI, killed off PHP processes

Re-uploaded my phprc file to the default one provided

Checked permissions on viewtopic.php were correct

Disabled this weird 'extra security' thing that dreamhost were offering me, don't know what it did anyway

That's all I could do back end - I don't run the server myself (shared hosting) so my options were pretty limited. If I had control over the server itself I would have made sure that memory limits set correctly, restarted Apache etc. etc.

Way to go teebling!

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Disabled this weird 'extra security' thing that dreamhost were offering me, don't know what it did anyway

Somewhere a sysadmin is screaming and doens't know why.