[AngelinaBelle]

This is great news.
And understanding php will help you understand and customize your SMF forum.

[Robbo]

Just so you know. Java and JavaScript are two very different things. The only reason it was called JavaScript was for easy marketing.

[AngelinaBelle]

The new host is watching resource usage carefully, and we don't want to disable the auto refresh (it's just such a great feature), so.... is there a way to have the shoutbox deactivate itself after 'X' minutes of inactivity? Inactivity could be the last time you navigated the site or typed into the shoutbox.

I declared a variable 'counter' as a default value of 0, and then increment this value on each refresh. I hard coded (as a test) a limit of 30, at which point it clears the refresh interval and ends the heavy load on the server.

[Cermno1981]

I'm back! With more problems, but I've solved them and thought I would share.

The heavy load was not only down to the Shoutbox but also the Aeva Media gallery modification I was running. I would appear the media (mainly YouTube) embedder that comes with Aeva Media was the culprit. I would therefore advise anybody who runs an even moderately busy site to avoid using the Aeva Media gallery modification.

Upon removal of the mod our usage dropped significantly, and the response times are far better.

We've also maintained our changes to the Shoutbox as it cuts the usage associated with that significantly as well.

[AngelinaBelle]

Thanks for that report. You might take the report of AEVA media load to that mod's support thread at SimpleMachines.org (Arantor often reads these), or to aeva.noisen.com, where the mods' author might (or might not) be interested in your report.