Forum - connection problems again

[#1]

Keep getting

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Connection Problems Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

[#2]

On Sunday night 4th-5th Oct, I was getting no end of issues with sessions timing out etc.
No drops in connection or anything. Weird.

[#3]

Also see this on a daily basis. The Control-F5 key combo gets a little work until the requested page loads.

[#4]

I've just seen this again a couple of minutes ago.

[#5]

And I just had a problem with "making a post" stalling. I had to copy my reply, open the thread in a new tab, close the other one and then post again

[#6]

I've just had that. When I refreshed the page with my prepared post I was then able to click Post.

[#7]

I've got into the habit of copying complicated posts because of this issue. I usually open the thread in a new tab again anyway in case it did actually post the first time to save a double post.

[#8]

I had problems on Sunday, and again this morning, with this error cropping up several times -

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An Error Has Occurred! The last posting from your IP was less than 5 seconds ago. Please try again later.

which is a load of bull because it wasn't true (nor had I pressed the Post button twice). But mostly the problems have been what looks like stalled posting - sometimes it's posted, other times not. Frankly I'm getting rather sick of it.

[#9]

I had one of those errors yesterday.

[#10]

I had one today

[#11]

Hi Anotherone,
hope this is the link that you meant, please advise if not.
I'm getting an error message (below) when trying to attach .jpg files to a thread that I have previously been able to do so with.
Message is :-
"An Error Has Occurred!
The upload folder is full. Please try a smaller file and/or contact an administrator."
Doing this with a smaller file results in exactly the same error.
Only straight text gets through, but all the detail that is needed is within the files 
The address of the page where I am attempting to post is :-
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,143213.112.html
Hope that this is of help.
Please advise me of anything that I have done/not done correctly & I'll try to sort it.

[#12]

I've tried the tactic of reporting the above post, not that there's anything wrong with the post, but because the report is visible to Plusnet staff.
Maybe they might actually take a look at what is going on, since they obviously have ignored this thread until now

[#13]

Thanks, glad to try & return some help.
Incidentally, I hadn't thought it significant before ( too busy swearing at the screen...) but I too have had the other message that you describe :-
"An Error Has Occurred!
The last posting from your IP was less than 5 seconds ago. Please try again later."

I had tried an unsuccessful post including files, then I cut the message text (sans files) went back to the message area and tried to paste and repost as a new message.
This took considerably longer than 5 seconds.... but I still got the error message.