Realm not saving, blocks not updating

So me and a couple friends bought a realm. Within half an hour we noticed the blocks arnt updating. For example, if I broke a block that had a button on it, the block would break and the button would just float there. The realm does not save whatsoever, we've had to build the same thing so many times to the point where I'm writing this forum post. There seems to be no solution to this problem as the Reddit posts I've read all saying the same thing, haven't found a solution to the problem. These Reddit posts were created last year. It's a shame too because I spent 8 dollars on a broken server.