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Hi All, I'm hoping somebody would be able to help me with a performance issue I'm having with a bit of code I've written. The setup: Client request arrives on Apache2 reverse proxy over HTTPS. SSL is offloaded and proxy initiates connection to backend development web server over standard HTTP. The website is being developed using HTML5 syled with CSS, Javascript (to dynamically show counters on message text area, perform client side validation for browsers that do not support the build in HTML5 input validation) and PHP for server side validation and form submission (sends email to webadmin). The development web server is located in a LXC container on the production web server. The host server presents the "public" IP address to the physical network and uses UFW to NAT all traffic inbound and outbound from the development website to trick the network into thinking that the server is on the physical network (Only way to get it routeable across the rest of the network). The problem: On form submission, if I intentionally leave the fields blank and turn off client side validation, the script echos "An error occured in your form, please check to make sure that all relevent fields are filled in!!!". This response returns in 16.50ms with a latency of 34.92ms. The POST appears instantly in the Apache2 logs less than a second after I submit the form. If I submit the form with all fields (Name, Email, Phone, Website, Subject and Message), it takes 60 - 65 seconds before Apache logs the POST has arrived. I'm not entirely sure why its taking this long for the server to receive the content. GET Requests are pretty much instant as I would expect. Could this be an issue with inefficient scripting that maye be causing this type of delay? This issue occurs regardless of whether I use firefox or Safari. Could this be a result of inefficient scripting? Using timelines in Safari and on form submission with content, I get 1.0min latency with an actual duration/script run time of 5.336ms. Where would this latency be coming from? Standard GET requests for HTML and CSS content is instant, next to no latency but once the Payload increases in size, it seems like I run into the issue. Any views, thoughts or possible things to try would be hugely appreciated. I'm learning the ropes with scriping at the moment but this high latency, as a hunch, appears to be server related. Happy to upload the submit.php script and web form if it will help. Many Thanks, A