It seems to be happening more frequently lately. It's quite frustrating to take about 20 minutes to draw up a long post only to have the server hang on submit. Perhaps its a sign I am only posting rubbish? When it does hang, the server seems to be unaccessible for 30 or more minutes at a time. This happened on 3 seperate occasions yesterday evening.
Since I cant review access logs, I cant be certain, but it seems to happen mostly when MANY bots are crawling the forum:
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Ask Jeeves [Bot], Exabot [Bot], flying_circus, Google [Bot], Google Feedfetcher, MSN [Bot], vin_akleh, wibblywobbly, Yahoo [Bot]
Is there a way to throttle bots, to retain the forum's useability? Of course, this is only speculation that bot traffic is the root of the problem.