What is phpbb cron and how do you fix it or check it?If you have a lot of traffic from bots that are not listed in the bots list yes that can cause bloated sessions table.
Another reason is phpbb cron is not running successfully.
Cloudflare has lot of tools for handling bot traffic and many other things. It' should not impact the performance of your site. If anything it will probably increase it.
Btw, my webhost sent me this article about increasing the size of the TMP file so it doesn't get full again.
https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/art ... filesystem
Do you recommend doing that? Is there a better way?
Their email to me:
We hope this message finds you well. Our escalated support team has successfully worked on your recent ticket E-212895 and resolved the reported issue. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and appreciate your patience throughout this process.
Resolution Details:
The reason you were unable to repair the phpbb_posts table was because /tmp was full. When /tmp is full you will be unable to run repair on a database. To fix this, I just resized /tmp. This process is outlined here: https://support.cpanel.net/hc/en-us/art ... filesystem. After correcting the issue with /tmp I just ran mysqlcheck on the database. If you run into this issue again, please reach out to support so that we can take a look.
As for what you should do moving forward, if the session files were created by bots then setting up Cloudflare would help mitigate the requests to the site. It is recommended that you work with your site developer to determine what the best actions would be to make sure the session table does not fill up. Otherwise, I would recommend reaching out to phpBB forum for assistance.
Statistics: Posted by WWu777 — Fri Nov 15, 2024 1:46 am