Yeah it's not the database or the CMS. It is a shared hosting service which means aria world is not the only site at this address. This is server performance and they are just playing stupid.

Time to look elsewhere. I am going to perform an upgradeof the cms soon though. Just to make sure I have used all my options.

FYI, yesterday was fine, but I'm getting long loading times today.

Nope, I only made one comment on one topic yesterday and got that

I cleared the ngnix web service cache and removed an old site infusion that I wasn't using anymore. I noticed it too that it seems to be working better but I did not want to jump the guns. Thank you for reporting it.

the site is working fine now thanks

That's actually legit from a flood auto-ban but I am wondering why are you getting it? Are you posting really fast? It's there to protect from DoS attacks and spammers trying to flood the forums.

There is 30 seconds wait if it happens again. Also, let me know of the situation when it happens, (i.e. what was the action, etc.etc.)

I keep getting this error " You are barred to post until the flood period cooldown is over. Please wait for now."

Haven't gotten the Gateway error in a few days

thank you Amigamia

Thanks for working on this issue

Well things seem to get deeper as I try to dig this issue.

I was able to switch the PHP support from 8.3 back to 7.4 and while that resolved a bunch of warnings in the error log, it did not seem to do much to improve the sporadic latency.

What I have been experiencing is high latency when browsing but not to a specific page nor a specific time. Sometimes pages come up with no problem.

I checked the database and it's very small (6MB). I tried to optimize the tables, updated them ( I don't see an option to re-index on MariaDB). Nothing has changed from my code point.

I asked the hosting service to make sure arosworld.org was on the same server where ae.arosworld.org is and this is the response I got:

"Both ae.arosworld.org and arosworld.org are hosted on the same server. We are seeing no performance issues on our end.
Any issue you are still seeing will be the result of your site implementation rather than any server environment issue."

still working my way through this but I feel that at one point I may have to make a decision to switch to a more supported CMS. Waiting to see a supposedly new version of PHP-Fusion coming up. Stay tuned as I experiment and try things out.

I have been at this on and off. The error log is showing some new errors I have never seen before. While investigating some of them, I came to the realization that the PHP support has been upgraded to 8.3.8. Unfortunately, a bunch of functions for PHP-Fusion 9.10.20 and other code lines have been deprecated in PHP 8.3.8.

Now here is the annoying part. There is a newer version of PHP-Fusion 9.10.30 but I don't think it'll resolve most of the issues because it is from September 2022. I have seen some of the code in the functions, which seems to still be the same.
On the other end, the project seems to be in a hiatus state, 1 developer and a bunch of people in the community helping here and there.

There is no path forward so far for PHP-Fusion. There is development going but it seems to be a brand-new code base, which means probably no upgrade path.

I have been fixing the code lines myself. So far, I fixed 3 of them but there are still some that come up as deprecated code.

I am going to see if the hosting service can move my code base back where it was before. Not sure if that's possible but worth a try.

The other alternative is to find another hosting service where I can switch between PHP support. This one was very cheap for the amount of traffic I was getting a few years ago. I just have to find one at a reasonable price that works somewhat better.

I also confirm that I have the same problems, once I even received error 504.

ae.arosworld.org, on the other hand, seems to have no such problems!

Hmm, while I no longer get gateway timeouts, I now get sometimes long page load times that look pretty much as gateway timeouts where someone just extendeded the timeout...

More changes were made to improve server performance. Monitoring for the next few days.

I can confirm to experience the same thing again. Opening a new ticket with hosting service.

Today, the 504 Gateway Timeout error occasionally returns, and sometimes the site is slow to open.

Seem to be working good right now, thanks.

It seems to be going well at the moment!

This has been acknowledged by the hosting service and supposedly resolved. Please report here for any future issues.

Thank you for reporting it. It is not just you. I have been experiencing the same issue. It is a hosting service issue, which I am reporting soon enough. It is temporary and normally refreshing the page clears it.