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Is the site okay??
« on: January 30, 2009, 08:34:56 PM »
The home page looks different, and on the boards when I click on a page it keeps timing out

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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 03:18:54 AM »
Everything should be fine. 

if your connection is slow page to page on the board will time out for some reason.  Other than that I don't know what it might be.

Can you say anything else specific?

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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 05:50:17 AM »
No.  it seems to have corrected itself.  The home page looks normal again and I'm not timing out anymore.

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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2009, 06:45:14 PM »
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Can you say anything else specific?

I've seen a 'Bandwidth Limit Reached' exception a couple of times on BG forum that prevented access for up to an hour.  It's only this site - I can open another tab and surf just fine - and it's not been because of 9,000 tabs open at once or anything.  I'm on an encrypted, residential, wireless router, so it's not that the neighborhood kids got home from school and ate up all the local bandwidth, AFAICT.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2009, 07:10:42 PM »
Eek, I have no idea what would cause that.  I've never seen the message.  Has anyone else?
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2009, 11:08:27 PM »
Couple of times, it recovers in a bit, usually.
My pet theory is that at that one point in time, enough people tried to load BG that the server thought it was a DDoS attack and briefly cut the connection.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2009, 12:15:21 AM »
I actually just saw it for the first time about 20-30 minutes ago. :(
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2009, 12:28:26 AM »
Ditto.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2009, 02:39:05 AM »
Its a misnomer.  The server load is too high, not the bandwidth.  We are supposed to migrate to a new server but we would be down for a few days. 
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2009, 08:42:02 AM »
Jackpot, I knew I guessed right, sorta.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2009, 02:25:23 PM »
just got this:
"Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. "

sounds like the server is way loaded. Perhaps switching to a mySQL back end? I work on another forum as a Mod, and since i sit about 30ft from the server i'm also one of the technical admins, and we use debian in a VM on a dedicated server since it always has traffic with a mySQL back end and it is pretty robust.

when hitting submit on this i got a nice little error page from your host:
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2009, 02:32:06 PM »
I just got a "you're using too much CPU" error screen repeatedly for about a minute.
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« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2009, 02:33:01 PM »
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #14 on: February 17, 2009, 02:41:49 PM »
I couldn't get on for a few minutes either.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2009, 02:51:54 PM »
I got Connection Error messages a minute ago. I guess there's just more activity now.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2009, 09:14:56 PM »
Got one some 6-7 hours ago.
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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #17 on: February 18, 2009, 01:37:11 AM »
That was me backing up the site.  It should say "site is backing up" but it doesn't. 

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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #18 on: February 21, 2009, 09:21:44 PM »
"This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota"

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Re: Is the site okay??
« Reply #19 on: February 21, 2009, 11:49:03 PM »
Naw, just too many php hits. Think of every page you load as a program the server must run to give you the page. When you have a few hundred of them running at the same time....
The mind transcends the body.
It's also a little cold because of that.
Please get it a blanket.

I wish I could read your mind,
I can barely read mine.

"Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. At 2:15, it begins rolling up characters."

[spoiler]
"Just what do you think the moon up in the sky is? Everyone sees that big, round shiny thing and thinks there must be something round up there, right? That's just silly. The truth is much more awesome than that. You can almost never see the real Moon, and its appearance is death to humans. You can only see the Moon when it's reflected in things. And the things it reflects in, like water or glass, can all be broken, right? Since the moon you see in the sky is just being reflected in the heavens, if you tear open the heavens it's easy to break it~"
-Ibuki Suika, on overkill

To sumbolaion diakoneto moi, basilisk ouranionon.
Epigenentheto, apoleia keraune hos timeis pteirei.
Hekatonkatis kai khiliakis astrapsato.
Khiliarkhou Astrape!
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