I can't really rule out that it's not something with the MySQL server either. It's possible that when it hangs, it's trying to make the MySQL connection, which would be why it doesn't show up in the processlist.

I'm on a regular shared plan and don't have ssh access.

So, probably going to be at their mercy in how much they want to assist.

A bit more info from my earlier post. If I close my browser and visit a profile direcly by pasting into into my address window sometimes that will come up. It will never come up if I click on it from a link.

Yes, I noticed that. Sometimes you can click on a link 2-3 times. It's almost as if you have to 'catch' it, to get it to work.

Yet everything was fine until the upgrade

Yeah, I see that things started happening since the upgrade, which is why I've been trying to see if anything was added that might be causing the issue.

What I'm seeing however it doesn't look like it. Basically all scripts run through the main ubbthreads.php script. Normally to debug, I'll add something like this:



I'll put that into various spots of the ubbthreads.php script to start. I'll move it down a bit at a time, so when I no longer see that line, then I know it's something above that point that's causing an issue. On your site, I can stick that up right at the top after the opening <?php tag and I never see it, so it's like it won't even begin to execute the php script when it hangs.

I wonder if they have some "throttling" script run via PHP that says "Hey, the CPU is this bogged, lets not let anything on the server run for a couple seconds"...