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Site Related => Announcements => Topic started by: smokester on August 26, 2009, 02:01:54 PM

Title: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 26, 2009, 02:01:54 PM: There has been a few incidents recently whereby members have had problems loading the forum, when at the same time other members have had no issues. These are more than likely to do with local settings or an individuals ISP etc, as they seem to clear all by themsleves given time. But to be on the safe side and so the maintenance staff here have a clear picture of the site's overall behaviour, could you report any problems you encounter no matter how small, along with a brief description of what occurred.

I personally experience a timeout error sometime between 12 - 12.15am (GMT) virtually every night. I believe this is because this is the time when the main server in Houston runs its maintenance routine, and for a minute or 2 service is suspended. This has also been the cause of our overnight outages (IMO), as I believe my host here that rents the bandwidth, failed to restart our apache server after the routine had finished. That seems to be fixed now as they have ensured me that have an automatic program that checks the server status every five minutes, but it will explian that error around that time if you happen to experience it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 02, 2009, 03:10:21 PM: Hello.

I have strange log in problem.
Last 10 days when am I logged in,it throw me back logging page again and again.
When i log in and then going like general discussion,I am in.

Edit:dweez fix his problem,so one problem less.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on September 02, 2009, 07:04:21 PM: sometimes when i come here, it goes to google. i dont think this is the sites problem as this happens with demonoid to and its happened to my homepage too... so maybe its my browser .... or the government.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 03, 2009, 02:23:38 AM: Re: Any and all site related problems

The people here are weird, myself included. Is there any possible solution to that Smokes? ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 04, 2009, 12:32:34 PM: Quote from: hmed2390 on September 03, 2009, 02:23:38 AM
Re: Any and all site related problems

The people here are weird, myself included. Is there any possible solution to that Smokes? ;D
:o

Today I log in normally without problems,at least now it's over,I hope.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 04, 2009, 03:04:04 PM: Quote from: hmed2390 on September 03, 2009, 02:23:38 AM
The people here are weird, myself included. Is there any possible solution to that Smokes? ;D

"People" you say? By jiminy, I'll have to rethink things.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 06, 2009, 04:06:11 AM: oh dear. ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 06, 2009, 03:43:28 PM: There have been some login problems reported that seem to be cookie related, and I have tweaked some settings here to try and resolve it. If anyone all of a sudden finds that there are problems with new posts being shown, or login timing out etc, please let me know here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 06, 2009, 05:10:21 PM: Quote from: laama on September 02, 2009, 03:10:21 PM
Hello.

I have strange log in problem.
Last 10 days when am I logged in,it throw me back logging page again and again.
When i log in and then going like general discussion,I am in.

This happens again and i run ccleaner and antivirus program before trying log in.
And my browser is FF.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 06, 2009, 05:29:54 PM: Quote from: smokester on September 06, 2009, 03:43:28 PM
There have been some login problems reported that seem to be cookie related, and I have tweaked some settings here to try and resolve it. If anyone all of a sudden finds that there are problems with new posts being shown, or login timing out etc, please let me know here.

how do we let you know if we can't log in? :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 06, 2009, 05:35:22 PM: Quote from: hmed2390 on September 06, 2009, 05:29:54 PM
how do we let you know if we can't log in? :D

Guests and logged out members should see a message atop the index page with my email address included, you can contact me there as it is the one I use when the site generates errors and reports them etc.

Quote from: laama on September 06, 2009, 05:10:21 PM
This happens again and i run ccleaner and antivirus program before trying log in.
And my browser is FF.

Your account doesn't show any errors this end and I am working on resolving a cookie issue that we might have that could also be the cause of your problem. If it happens again try deleting your cookies and trying again.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 06, 2009, 05:36:35 PM: Quote from: smokester on September 06, 2009, 05:35:22 PM
Guests and logged out members should see a message atop the index page with my email address included, you can contact me there as it is the one I use when the site generates errors and reports them etc.

oops. :P
thanks. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: indie180 on September 07, 2009, 05:29:20 PM: Quote from: smokester on August 26, 2009, 02:01:54 PM
I personally experience a timeout error sometime between 12 - 12.15am (GMT) virtually every night.

Aye, but it was back me about 12.25 am
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on September 07, 2009, 05:32:24 PM: I just had a hiccup where I was getting a "Not Available" message. I restarted FF with no luck but 10 minutes later it was back. I'm assuming this was on my end but wanted to post it up here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 10, 2009, 05:06:36 PM: I get blank page when i was posting Chaos-->Last Person To Posts Wins.

It happens 01:59 - 02:01 GMT+2 and refresh didn't help,but now everything works again.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 10, 2009, 08:09:30 PM: Just the other day I was sending a PM and I'd get a timed out message , and this happened three times over.
The rest of the site was fine.
I hit back as well as navigated to my PM inbox from the site.
The PM ended up sending all three times I tried sending it despite the message.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 11, 2009, 05:58:15 PM: Hmm...

Now I have problems to log out.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 11, 2009, 06:01:35 PM: Quote from: laama on September 11, 2009, 05:58:15 PM
Hmm...

Now I have problems to log out.

me too. since last night.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 11, 2009, 08:24:51 PM: Quote from: hmed2390 on September 11, 2009, 06:01:35 PM
me too. since last night.
+1

I was "log" out last night,but friday/saturday night when I was log in,I was already in and when I trying log out it was pain in the ass.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 12, 2009, 03:30:35 AM: was a pain in the ass?

you finally managed to?

I had to clear Firefox's cache to log off.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 12, 2009, 06:29:47 AM: Strange,but after Ccleaner run I have still log in/out problems.

An Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 12, 2009, 01:12:35 PM: It's all a bit odd as the forum doesn't appear to be spitting out any errors. I have tweaked some settings that are to do with cookies, but this was after some of these problems started to occur. When we migrate to a new server I plan to install version 2 anyhow, and that may well see the back of these little annoyances.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 13, 2009, 05:35:20 PM: At least none of these issues are as bad as my Al-Jazeera firefox bug eh smokester? ;)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 13, 2009, 05:56:24 PM: Quote from: hmed2390 on September 13, 2009, 05:35:20 PM
At least none of these issues are as bad as my Al-Jazeera firefox bug eh smokester? ;)

I still get emails from the FBI over that..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on September 13, 2009, 05:57:16 PM: LOL

:D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on September 14, 2009, 03:13:33 PM: I was trying log out and this happened again:

An Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 15, 2009, 01:58:21 PM: Quote from: laama on September 14, 2009, 03:13:33 PM
I was trying log out and this happened again:

An Error Has Occurred!
Session verification failed. Please try logging out and back in again, and then try again.

I accidentely logged into the gamekeeper account using Opera today, and experienced that error when I tried to log out. I don't think's it's doing much other than informing you that you are not logged in anymore - even if it appears that you are, but it does prove that we might have a site wide issue with this and I'll get on trying to find the root cause of it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: indie180 on September 15, 2009, 02:02:24 PM: I have my account logged in 'forever' and just close the window, so I have never seen this.

I will log in to Gamekeeper and see if I get it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: indie180 on September 15, 2009, 02:28:30 PM: Normally I use FF and log in to Gamekeeper using IE.

I couldn't log out using IE (logged in with both FF and IE), so I closed IE and could log in and out with FF, with no prob's.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 15, 2009, 03:37:30 PM: Quote from: indie180 on September 15, 2009, 02:28:30 PM
Normally I use FF and log in to Gamekeeper using IE.

I couldn't log out using IE (logged in with both FF and IE), so I closed IE and could log in and out with FF, with no prob's.

There has been around 3 or 4 people that have experienced this prob or something similar, so there is more and likely an error somewhere here on the site and is not really browser specific - it's just handy to state which one you were using when something does go wrong so we can rule it in or out as the case may be.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on September 22, 2009, 05:32:38 PM: disfora was down for me , for about five mintues i guess.

i was updating the scoreboard and i clicked send and then i got the message "Server down or could not connect to server or something" i would post this in the problem section but i cant remember where that post was located..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on October 07, 2009, 05:34:47 PM: Diasfora went down for me for 15 mins - 00:15 - 00:30

Is usually goes off around this time most evenings.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 07, 2009, 05:46:00 PM: Quote from: redlandslide on October 07, 2009, 05:34:47 PM
Diasfora went down for me for 15 mins - 00:15 - 00:30

Is usually goes off around this time most evenings.

Yeah, this time I mailed the host after 5 minutes and said it looked like they hadn't restarted Apache (it was showing inactive in my control panel), hopefully that will sort it for a while and I am signing up for a new host before the end of this month. Perhaps we will have more luck with the new one? I do however, have 3 months left with this host and it might take a while to get a new forum ready before we migrate over.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on October 07, 2009, 06:20:23 PM: Diasfora went down for me 10 mins about 2:55-3:05 (GMT+2)

This was first time for me in long time.

Usually I have log in/out problems,but couple last days I don't have logging problems.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on October 20, 2009, 07:53:04 AM: Just today, as I was checking out the fora, I noticed that some of the threads, when I clicked on "New" took me to page one of the thread instead of "the first unread post". I assume this is due to the tweaking/pruning smokester has been doing (the "New" link is the thread link plus an "anchor" to the message #. Since smokester has pruned some posts, that number is no longer valid so instead the link defaults to the beginning of the thread).

Not complaining, just doing my due diligence and recording the action here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on October 20, 2009, 08:02:58 AM: Yeah, it resets your cache since it is a "new page" is what Im thinking.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 23, 2009, 05:18:32 PM: Things feel strange without the little server outage we always experienced at this time, as it gave me a reminder that it was about time to go to bed.

I kinda miss it (sniff).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on October 30, 2009, 11:47:57 AM: Quote from: smokester on October 23, 2009, 05:18:32 PM
Things feel strange without the little server outage we always experienced at this time, as it gave me a reminder that it was about time to go to bed.

I kinda miss it (sniff).

haha. 8)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on November 03, 2009, 03:35:55 PM: why i copy and paste from another site onto here, it copies the code of the text as well. but i dont see the code until after i post...
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 03, 2009, 04:00:56 PM: Quote from: mishca09 on November 03, 2009, 03:35:55 PM
why i copy and paste from another site onto here, it copies the code of the text as well. but i dont see the code until after i post...

I'm not sure. Do you copy the code from an image host or something and the BBCode tags are not showing when you paste in the reply box?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on November 03, 2009, 04:07:22 PM: when i copy from imageshack and then click preview , i cant view the code and edit and when i copy a name from lets say imdb I'll get this Michael Keaton
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on November 03, 2009, 04:19:42 PM: I have no advice but Mishca is definately having some issues. The majority of her posts are not formatting the html.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 03, 2009, 04:21:46 PM: Quote from: ohcheap1 on November 03, 2009, 04:19:42 PM
I have no advice but Mishca is definately having some issues. The majority of her posts are not formatting the html.

It's not HTML it's the BBC that has a bug.

For some reason the colour tag with the RGB in your code below isn't working on these boards and there are big differences with the BBC here compared to the old version.

Code: [Select]
[font=arial][size=13px][color=rgb(0, 51, 153)]Michael Keaton[/color][/size][/font]
It is confirmed as a bug but I can't see them fixing it any time soon. For now I would use the colour presents we have here for posting and I'll try and install a mod that gives you the complete spectrum of BBC colours.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on November 03, 2009, 04:31:50 PM: okays, i do use the colors that are present when updating the score board. i get that code if i copy the text from another website and post here. its not liek the old site were it only copied the text and not the style to. I'll just post and then go back and edit. thanks 4 the help.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 03, 2009, 05:19:10 PM: I actually think the RGB addition isn't recognised as the board isn't equipped to. It does register the Hex code and I have found a mod that will allow both formatting of text and/or its background to any of the BBC colours, but it is another manual installation so I'll do it tomorrow in when its quiet.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 04, 2009, 03:44:20 AM: Quote from: mishca09 on November 03, 2009, 04:31:50 PM
okays, i do use the colors that are present when updating the score board. i get that code if i copy the text from another website and post here. its not liek the old site were it only copied the text and not the style to. I'll just post and then go back and edit. thanks 4 the help.

I've incorporated that colour system for you and you can get some tips in from this post:

http://www.diasfora.co.uk/index.php?topic=68.msg120596#msg120596

[bgcolor=#ff0000]Can[/bgcolor] [bgcolor=#d70000]easily[/bgcolor] [bgcolor=#0000ff]do[/bgcolor] [bgcolor=#ff6b00]things[/bgcolor] [bgcolor=#ff00ff]like this now.[/bgcolor]
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on December 18, 2009, 04:27:10 PM: I don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but I had a problem accessing this site this morning around 9:15. When I finally accessed the forum, it was very slow and when I made a post it took about 10 minutes for it to go through.

I noticed the gap between that post and the one previous (I think by JackFrost) was several hours. Just thought I'd mention it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 18, 2009, 05:42:24 PM: Quote from: redlandslide on December 18, 2009, 04:27:10 PM
I don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but I had a problem accessing this site this morning around 9:15. When I finally accessed the forum, it was very slow and when I made a post it took about 10 minutes for it to go through.

I noticed the gap between that post and the one previous (I think by JackFrost) was several hours. Just thought I'd mention it.

The last few mornings I have logged in there has been that "server load" problem with our server. However, today I wasn't around so I'll check some logs and see if anything was recorded but it certainly sound like the exact same thing. Hopefully it isn't something awry with our forum causing it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on January 06, 2010, 06:15:57 PM: What the WHAT?
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k246/ohcheap1/what-4.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 07, 2010, 06:20:17 AM: Quote from: ohcheap1 on January 06, 2010, 06:15:57 PM
What the WHAT?
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k246/ohcheap1/what-4.jpg)

I have no idea why that happened other that it being a bug in the mod that won't allow regular members post spoilers in PMs (you can still post them on the boards?). I'll check the code again as I manually installed it and could have made an error somewhere (has been know to happen).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on January 07, 2010, 06:58:09 AM: Yep, I can use them on the boards. Just thought it was an unusual restriction. I have plenty to keep me busy until its fixed, Right AJ? Ma Ha Ha Ha!!!!(http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/evilgrin/evilgrin0036.gif)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 11, 2010, 08:53:21 AM: I am getting a little tired of the server load continually spiking even though I realise it not essentially the host's fault, but more likely another account on the server hogging the resources.

Most of you probably miss it but every now and then we get periods whereby the pages struggle to load, and they can last up to an hour at a time. I am constantly in touch with the host and they monitor the server 24/7 to try and catch what is causing it, and they have offered to move us on a couple of occasions.

Today, after another bout of server load spiking I requested that the site be moved to a less busy server as they had offered. This shouldn't be much trouble for them and I don't think we will have a propagation period as such, but if there is a break in service you'll know why it has happened and you should keep trying until it is all resolved.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on January 11, 2010, 02:21:58 PM: I noticed that couple last days it takes much longer time to page load up than earlier.
Otherwise when I log in,no problem at all.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Geemonster on January 12, 2010, 04:49:34 AM: Quote from: redlandslide on December 18, 2009, 04:27:10 PM
I don't know if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but I had a problem accessing this site this morning around 9:15. When I finally accessed the forum, it was very slow and when I made a post it took about 10 minutes for it to go through.

I noticed the gap between that post and the one previous (I think by JackFrost) was several hours. Just thought I'd mention it.

Same thing happens to me quite frequently,i made a post once,ate breakfast,and it was still loading when i came up the stairs.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 12, 2010, 04:57:21 AM: Quote from: Geemonster on January 12, 2010, 04:49:34 AM
Same thing happens to me quite frequently,i made a post once,ate breakfast,and it was still loading when i came up the stairs.

As I have mentioned a couple of posts ago, we are now going to jump server.

All it takes is another account on a shared server to do something like a huge mail out, for it to tie the server up until the request is completed. I was told that there were custom scripts running on our server set up by another account holder, and they were the cause of our extended outages.

No worries as we will be on another server soon and the service isn't terrible on this one anyhow.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 13, 2010, 03:38:23 AM: I have the address of our new nameserver and we will be moved fairly soon I believe. I would imagine that our service will be temperamental until the move is completed.

Stand by.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Skadi on January 13, 2010, 07:38:02 AM: it was slow loading and down just a few minutes ago
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 13, 2010, 07:57:17 AM: Same for me, from about 9:40am-9:55am EST, the site was taking very long for me to post replies, as in up to a minute or so. Then at 9:55am EST, *bam*, back to normal.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 13, 2010, 08:07:48 AM: Someone else on our server is obviously getting their money's worth at our expense. I have had full confirmation on our imminent move but I don't expect a break in service - although there could be?

I'll keep posting updates.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on January 13, 2010, 08:27:35 AM: Its happening to me right now! 10:27am
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 13, 2010, 10:44:06 AM: Happening slightly now starting around 12:29pm EST.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 13, 2010, 10:44:32 AM: 16 seconds to post the above.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 13, 2010, 10:44:49 AM: And 1 second for ^^ that one. Weird.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on January 13, 2010, 12:41:55 PM: This happening to me between 21.35-21.37 in Finnish time and after it page load up takes about 30 seconds.

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 13, 2010, 12:48:10 PM: at the moment the site is slow or fails to load a page at all :-\
can wait a minute or so
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 13, 2010, 12:49:15 PM: Same a few minutes ago, but again now it seems fine.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on January 13, 2010, 03:30:29 PM: Quote from: laama on January 13, 2010, 12:41:55 PM
This happening to me between 21.35-21.37 in Finnish time and after it page load up takes about 30 seconds.

Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
This again when I was trying log out,about 00:26-00:28 in Finnish time.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on January 15, 2010, 08:51:19 AM: Im thinking maybe its a good thing cause I made a drunken post last night that I may have lived to regret. So.....thanks! ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on January 15, 2010, 08:59:49 AM: Update from Smokester.

"Basically what has happened is that because they copied our site to the new server before it went live (which was a day later), there has been a day's delay and those interim posts are on the old database,

I am stuck on the old site as the propagation isn't complete yet so I am seeing a ghost.

People have the choice of waiting for me to move the updated database to the new server (which will overwrite any posts from today) or simply update the threads there to catch up so to speak.

I'll try and hop dimensions so I can see the new server.."
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 15, 2010, 09:23:42 AM: i can get on the site now,gave up last night
lots of repeated posts and posts missing.
all ok ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on January 15, 2010, 11:10:33 AM: Quote from: ohcheap1 on January 15, 2010, 08:51:19 AM
Im thinking maybe its a good thing cause I made a drunken post last night that I may have lived to regret. So.....thanks! ;D
:o :o

Now site works well.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 15, 2010, 12:20:54 PM: Quote from: christ on January 15, 2010, 03:43:34 AM
Database crash, or restore from old backup?

I figured this was the case as well since some of my posts are missing (the SWF of Marzipan from Homestar Runner most obviously) and it wasn't in the Recycle Bin. :D

Also, I notice that the games are going on as normal...this will definitely mess up the scores and "Used" lists when smokes finally moves over the db.

EDITED:

I also send out an e-mail and PM to everyone (well, halfway through the PM process I got the "white screen" so not sure if it finished or not) telling everyone to make sure they read this thread.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 15, 2010, 12:36:18 PM: I haven't received any PMs or e-mails from smokester yet so I can only assume we are not 100% transitioned yet. Red, do you have any more info regarding this? PM me if you feel it's more pertinent.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on January 15, 2010, 12:40:34 PM: I got your PM.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on January 15, 2010, 12:45:22 PM: Quote from: dweez on January 15, 2010, 12:20:54 PM
I also send out an e-mail and PM to everyone (well, halfway through the PM process I got the "white screen" so not sure if it finished or not) telling everyone to make sure they read this thread.

I got nothin but Im reading it just the same.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on January 15, 2010, 12:47:32 PM: Quote from: laama on January 15, 2010, 11:10:33 AM
Now site works well.

And Im completely sober. Shewwwww!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 15, 2010, 02:37:38 PM: Quote from: christ on January 15, 2010, 01:40:47 PM
Just delete the lot and start again.

Hehe, that's always worked for you hasn't it christ? ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 15, 2010, 03:11:02 PM: received mail and link. ;D
link just sent me back to home page though :-\.
but i 'm reading anyway.
hope all go's alright with the server :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hittz on January 15, 2010, 09:29:16 PM: Thanks for the PM Smoke. All seems to be ok ;) And Happy anniversary to all of Diasfora, and maaaaany moooooooore ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 16, 2010, 03:57:06 AM: Ok I am here now but there were some waifs and strays still stuck on the old server (I left food out so don't worry).

It's the host fault really we lost posts as they rebuilt my account on the new server on wednesday and made it live on thursday night or friday morning depending on your timezone. That meant that the condition of the database was that of wednesday when you first made it here. If everything is back on track I'll leave it as is, otherwise, I have to restore it back to what it would have been yesterday morning and the inter-dimensional shift is already screwing with my brain.

On a brighter note the new server is very powerful and has far fewer accounts on it. I have been told by Buster that he has also experienced problems and we may not be out of the woods yet - but we should be good for a while.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on January 16, 2010, 04:39:10 AM: Good to see everything's getting back to normal, things here do seem to be a lot quicker on this server. The ice outside melted overnight as well, so I'll be able to venture outside today with a more purposeful stride.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 21, 2010, 08:35:27 AM: Anyone know when the site had that glitch I just experienced? I had to go and get my kids half an hour ago and came back to find it down - anyone know for how long?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on January 21, 2010, 08:38:58 AM: Something happen? Couldn't get on here for a few mins just then.

Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to review your post.

Quote from: smokester on January 21, 2010, 08:35:27 AM
Anyone know when the site had that glitch I just experienced? I had to go and get my kids half an hour ago and came back to find it down - anyone know for how long?

I was trying for about five minutes before everything started working again, but it may have been longer judging when the last post was.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 21, 2010, 08:49:08 AM: It's a strange one as I could access the server and everything looked fine. I went to see if another domain of mine was working as if it was it would have meant that the site was at fault, but just as I loaded another domain this one sprang to life so I couldn't tell?

The server load is already up on our new server but unlike the old one it doesn't seem to clip out and cause errors, just some slow page loading on occasion. I am not ruling out another move though if our problems persist, as I may be able to get a refund.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 29, 2010, 09:59:28 AM: Server crashed:

(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii319/smokeyb53/serva13.jpg)

It happens..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on January 29, 2010, 10:01:51 AM: I was wondering. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 11, 2010, 04:32:49 PM: I have been trying very hard to sort out all the server load spikes sorted out as for the last week or so we have been right back where we were with slow page loading and time-out errors. It has been a bit disappointing and hard work but last night I was informed that they had identified an account on the server that was causing the spikes and had suspended it. I haven't been around much today as it was my little girls birthday so can anyone confirm whether the site has been operating better today, or at least hasn't had any spells where the loading was noticable slow?

Thanks
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on February 11, 2010, 04:58:29 PM: I haven't noticed any probs, but haven't been on here overly much today either, due to putting some shelves up.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 12, 2010, 02:35:29 AM: Every time I have checked there has been a phenomenal improvement, maybe we will now get the sort of service you'd expect from any host.

Fingers crossed..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: busterone on February 12, 2010, 12:34:19 PM: Your pages are loading quite fast for me here in NC. Hopefully they got you squared away. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: busterone on February 12, 2010, 05:14:35 PM: Quote from: christ on February 12, 2010, 01:32:12 PM
How's the Greg Taylor hearing going buster?

Actually very well. They have (in my opinion of course) proven that every shred of so called evidence was erroneous and in one instance, deliberately misleading. This is a quote of my post earlier on the subject-
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The live feed is over. They have stopped until Monday morning at 10 am. The video of today's proceedings is not available yet, but as soon as it is, I will post it here.

In watching today's proceedings, I have personal opinion on the testimony. It seemed very apparent that the original blood report from the SBI agent was misleading and untruthful. Whether deliberate or by accident, only he knows for sure, and it is up to the judges to decide. His lab notes verified that the tests on the "so-called" blood spatters on Greg's vehicle was negative. The initial tests in the field only reveal a possibility of blood, which gives cause for further testings in the lab. The tests in the lab concluded that there was no evidence that it was human blood at all, much less from the victim. In the original trial, the official report from the SBI to the DA's office did not state that, it stated that it WAS blood. That information was used by the prosecution to bamboozle a jury into believing that it was the victim's blood on Greg's vehicle.

In today's testimony, the defense established clearly in my opinion, that the "so-called" evidence that the prosecution used 17 years ago was incorrect - Keeping in mind also that 2 days ago, another DNA expert confirmed that there was absolutely no conclusive evidence of any of it being blood at all, even less that it was human blood. The earlier expert also verified that there was absolutely no DNA evidence to place Greg anywhere near the victim, nor to place the victim in the vehicle.

I see an obvious misconduct on the part of the SBI and the prosecution 17 years ago. Although i have known of this and suspected it, the last 4 days' evidence reveals it.

This is my opinion again- Greg should be immediately set free, and Mr. Willoughby and Mr. Ford should go to prison for the exact same amount of time that Greg has served.
Sorry Smokes, I forgot what thread I was in. You can move these if you need. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 13, 2010, 04:03:56 AM: Quote from: busterone on February 12, 2010, 05:14:35 PM
You can move these if you need. :)

Think nothing of it Buster and feel free to start your own thread on this issue over here if you so desire.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 13, 2010, 09:31:29 AM: Quote from: christ on February 13, 2010, 09:23:21 AM
My fault entirely.

I just wanted to ask how things were going, and I have no respect for thread title or direction. On the "start a thread here" thing - I think that most folk get their fix on the Den (I just can't post there any more).

Considering the trouble I have had with the server load recently, I'm just glad your posts have managed to update at all. Besides which, I am technically a mod of this section so I get rank of the others here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 13, 2010, 10:15:17 AM: i'm getting better connection speed now
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on February 13, 2010, 06:34:15 PM: No problem for me,everything works fast and well.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 14, 2010, 07:25:58 AM: We have had a few days where the load has been very low and the forum performing well because of it. However, although the load is not clipping yet it is now right back up to the upper limit of its safe margin and if it persists I am going to move us and my other "dynamic" sites to a different host altogether, so that I do not have to monitor and chase the server on a daily basis (I am pretty sick of it I can tell you). It won't mean any distruption really other than an hour of two while I move the database over, and I'll keep everyone informed if and when I decide to do that.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 14, 2010, 09:49:22 AM: wow so much work for nothing ( wages )
i admire you .
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 14, 2010, 10:40:27 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on February 14, 2010, 09:49:22 AM
wow so much work for nothing ( wages )

The bad thing about our new host and the load problems that have plagued us consistently, is that monitoring them has made me more distant from the activity on the site itself. If it weren't for that I get plenty from the forum and its members (especially OC1) by way of entertainment (as I'm sure we all do) and that is reward enough.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on February 14, 2010, 10:44:30 AM: Only today I'm having troubles but it's been OK for me the last few days. Or all this week I think.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on February 15, 2010, 03:01:36 PM: Every now and then I get an internal server error message, works okay when I reload the page though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on February 15, 2010, 03:10:39 PM: Yes, me too, several times today.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 15, 2010, 03:21:50 PM: The server has been struggling all day and I have made 3 reports to them of the failures. The server is undergoing "analysis" which I am hoping is why the load is naturally up, but I am nearly resigned to moving us to a UK host that is a bit more expensive but far more solid.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 15, 2010, 04:11:02 PM: Quote from: christ on February 15, 2010, 03:43:26 PM
What are you prattling on about in my Greg Taylor thread?

Praise the day when I don't have to.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: busterone on February 16, 2010, 08:36:26 AM: ;D ;D ;D
I know exactly what you have been going through. It can be extremely tiring and frustrating when it takes all your focus away from the things you would much rather be doing.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 16, 2010, 08:44:10 AM: Quote from: busterone on February 16, 2010, 08:36:26 AM
;D ;D ;D
I know exactly what you have been going through. It can be extremely tiring and frustrating when it takes all your focus away from the things you would much rather be doing.

I am finding customer support 'irritatingly' helpful now - they remind me of my little girl and her puppy dog eyes when I am trying to tell her off.

I, like you, understand that people can run scripts that can cripple the server for the rest of the accounts on it, but it is hardly yours and my job to rectify it.

They have suspended even more accounts now (apparently) so the service is good again for the time being, but it has already started to creep up again and it hasn't even been 24hrs?

Sorry christ for messin' with your thread again, I'll leave a pint in the pump for your to make up for it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: busterone on February 17, 2010, 12:27:31 PM: Fantastic news christ. Greg is to be set free. The judges ruled that he is innocent and that all charges shall be dropped. Happy times here in NC. :D
You don't have to log in to read, it is set for guest access. -
http://www.thedemonsden.com/index.php?topic=8938.msg170020;topicseen#new (http://www.thedemonsden.com/index.php?topic=8938.msg170020;topicseen#new)

Smokes, I understand that as well. They tried and often went overboard to attempt to help me. Unfortunately, like you said, it isn't our job to monitor what scripts their other customers are running, that is their job. I hope it gets better. I am happily back with the old host and no hiccups yet.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 17, 2010, 03:24:44 PM: Quote from: christ on February 17, 2010, 01:24:45 PM
I know. But I can't ask for updates when I want.

Omnipotent?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 19, 2010, 06:03:33 AM: The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.diasfora.co.uk Port 80

keep getting this error
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 19, 2010, 08:18:45 AM: The server is always struggling now and as far as I am concerned they either cannot or are not doing anything about it for the long term. I am probably going to stick us on another host with a small account that is dedicated just to this forum. It should get rid of these probs and make life easier on myself and other staff but until then I would imagine the site will keep spitting out the occasional error.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on February 20, 2010, 09:02:59 AM: Im leary about saying anything as it isnt really a problem that I cant deal with but you said you wanted to know about issues so.....

Regularly when I am PM'd, and not logged on, I get an email telling me that I rec a message. Its within 60-90 after the fact. Over the the last 2-3 days my emails are days behind the actual PM's. Just telling you in case it helps resolve anything else.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 20, 2010, 09:41:46 AM: Well, one way or the other we will have to get the forum off this host as it is far more trouble than it's worth. The server load is normal today which I personally think is the exception to the rule, but hopefully it will stop the errors for a while including the email notification lag.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on March 12, 2010, 06:16:33 AM: I was having problems loading pages here around 1 o,clockish PM UK time. Lasted for around 10 mins. Okay now though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 12, 2010, 06:32:26 AM: Hmmm.. odd. I have got the service we are entitled to now with all the spammers off the server. The load has been remarkably low and if it continues to be, then the occassional spike while someone is doing some maintenance on another account, is completely acceptable and to be expected. Let's hope that is what happened a little while ago although I can't say I experienced it to any degree myself?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 12, 2010, 08:02:37 AM: Ok, I saw that one myself and it must be to do with problems the host has as the entire company site is down?

Doesn't look at this moment that it is the server we are on itself that is the problem, rather the control that the host has over it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: AlienBC on March 12, 2010, 08:06:34 AM: Had a few very slow or long time trying to connect to Diasfora 2day. just came back on now and was normal ie. fast ???
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on March 12, 2010, 08:10:16 AM: Some minutes ago I couldn't connect. It lasted only a few minutes. Then it was OK. But every few minutes it's a little slow. (Just reporting, not complaining :) )
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: AlienBC on March 12, 2010, 08:23:16 AM: Not complaining HELL I want my money back ;D

Seems ok now first I thought it was my connection then tried another site and it loaded stright away so it must have been this end. 8)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on March 13, 2010, 01:01:40 PM: Friday there was routing issues around Europa and US,so it might explain all this crap.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on March 14, 2010, 01:01:05 AM: no problems for me at the moment
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on March 14, 2010, 08:00:49 AM: Yep, it's working really well.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 01, 2010, 04:20:23 AM: I realise the site has been a bit 'sticky' of late and I see that our server has a higher load permanently now. I do keep the site light to keep it running efficiently but this morning I was having real problems loading pages and there was only a couple of people on. If anyone else experiences any timeouts or broken pages when browsing, please let me know here so I can take it up to my host.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 01, 2010, 03:37:08 PM: Quote from: christ on June 01, 2010, 03:15:39 PM
My ration is fuxxored.

- but other than that, no issues.

They have slimmed down some of their own routines and are upgrading the kernel to see if that gets the load down, but it's good that the site isn't spitting errors just yet.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 02, 2010, 04:06:42 AM: The server has had a Kernel upgrade and I have never seen the site so fast - although I can feel a 'famous last words' moment coming on ..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on June 02, 2010, 07:13:02 PM: I've been having trouble loading pages here for the last five mins or so.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on June 03, 2010, 12:06:33 PM: I had troubles for a few min at that same time. Today this is the first time I log in and it's working perfectly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 11, 2010, 02:49:07 PM: I've been informed that the servers are to undergo some network maintenance which requires a core server reboot. Sometime over the weekend we'll go down for 15 - 30 minutes but I'm hoping they'll be up and running without issue afterwards. I think it will happen around 1am Sunday eastern yankee time so we should be quiet anyhow, and the only Brit awake at that time in the U.K is Goldie.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on September 12, 2010, 01:01:56 AM: trust me i try not to be :D :D :D :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Skadi on September 14, 2010, 04:51:18 PM: I had a shot connection problem a minute ago.. a 'server could be busy' kind of one. But it sorted itself quickly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 15, 2010, 02:29:25 AM: Quote from: Skadi on September 14, 2010, 04:51:18 PM
I had a shot connection problem a minute ago.. a 'server could be busy' kind of one. But it sorted itself quickly.

We have also had a kernel upgrade over the last day or so which should of in fact, improved our service. However, as with these things there may be some 'teething'.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 02, 2010, 08:11:41 AM: From our main host;

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Maintenance Notice

Dear *,

We are contacting you to inform you about some upcoming emergency maintenance.

We have to replace one of the electrical breaker in our data center that would affect all the servers on one rack.

You are receiving this maintenance notice because your server is among the servers which will be affected by this emergency maintenance.

This is scheduled to be performed on Thursday (December 2nd, 2010) at 2 PM EST, and the estimated downtime is around 30 min, however we are forecasting 60 minutes to be safe.

We are sorry for the short notice but delaying this could risk the stability of the servers on this rack.

We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your cooperation with this.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 02, 2010, 08:34:36 AM: Incidentely, what's 2pm EST in old money?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 02, 2010, 08:39:42 AM: Time for a beer?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 02, 2010, 08:48:59 AM: Quote from: xtopave on December 02, 2010, 08:39:42 AM
Time for a beer?

Are you offering?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on December 02, 2010, 09:38:20 AM: So this should be happening 7pm UK time?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 02, 2010, 10:10:32 AM: Quote from: redlandslide on December 02, 2010, 09:38:20 AM
So this should be happening 7pm UK time?

I guess so. That's dinner time for me but I'm back shortly after 8pm so if it's still down, I'll get right on it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 02, 2010, 10:41:02 AM: Quote from: smokester on December 02, 2010, 08:48:59 AM
Are you offering?

Beer is not be be denied to anyone. Or was it water...? Ummnn, no. Definitely beer.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 04, 2010, 05:39:14 AM: site is going like a steam train at the moment for me .
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 07, 2010, 08:11:13 AM: subvinorosa has been having intermittent connection problems it seems. Anyway to track down the cause?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 07, 2010, 01:54:29 PM: Quote from: dweez on December 07, 2010, 08:11:13 AM
subvinorosa has been having intermittent connection problems it seems. Anyway to track down the cause?

I'll check the forum logs and the overall site logs too. Don't log into the site's control panel as I'll be there for a little while Dweez.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on December 08, 2010, 02:09:12 AM: I couldn't log in yesterday. :'(
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 08, 2010, 03:56:15 AM: Quote from: subvinorosa on December 08, 2010, 02:09:12 AM
I couldn't log in yesterday. :'(

Your account didn't show any errors and the forum logs didn't see anything happening with your IP. It may have been a local issue to you but I did notice in our site's logs that we had quite a nasty bot trying to do all manner of things to get into the site's files. It may have been a hacking attempt that screwed with the logins temporarily - what time did the problem occur?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 10, 2010, 04:07:20 PM: I think this is happening soon:

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Maintenance Notice

Dear *,

We are contacting you to inform you about an emergency network maintenance that we will be performing at 6:30 PM EST today ( Friday, Dec 10, 2010).

The estimated downtime for this maintenance is only one minute , however as always if any problems arise then it may take longer. In any case we will be trying to keep the downtime window to minimum.

This maintenance will resolve the slow speed issues that clients have been noticing recently.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on December 11, 2010, 06:52:54 AM: Quote from: smokester on December 08, 2010, 03:56:15 AM
Your account didn't show any errors and the forum logs didn't see anything happening with your IP. It may have been a local issue to you but I did notice in our site's logs that we had quite a nasty bot trying to do all manner of things to get into the site's files. It may have been a hacking attempt that screwed with the logins temporarily - what time did the problem occur?

I'll try to screencap next time I encounter the problem. It annoys me when I can't get my forum fix.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 11, 2010, 12:55:23 PM: It annoys us when we can't get our svr fix either! ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 11, 2010, 03:28:05 PM: I've been busy all day and just ot on, and I am getting timwout pages all over the place here and really slow loading - sometimes. Then it is lightning fast and then another time out so it feels completely random. Anyone else getting the same sort of poo?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 11, 2010, 03:57:39 PM: I haven't noticed any slowness or randomness as you mentioned but I've only been popping in to see if there were new posts. There hasn't been much posting today, which does strike me as odd, so this might just be a result of the connection issue you're experiencing and I'm just seeing the symptoms out of context.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on December 12, 2010, 07:23:06 AM: Forum is very slow for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 12, 2010, 07:41:35 AM: I haven't been here yesterday for most of the day but right now it's working perfectly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 12, 2010, 10:41:23 AM: subvinorosa is having login problems again. Initially, I thought that she couldn't even reach the site but evidently not. Here's her screenshot.

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/DS_subrosa/DiasDatabaseError.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on December 12, 2010, 12:17:30 PM: Yay! I finally managed to get in!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 12, 2010, 03:03:44 PM: Quote from: dweez on December 12, 2010, 10:41:23 AM
subvinorosa is having login problems again. Initially, I thought that she couldn't even reach the site but evidently not. Here's her screenshot.

(http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k95/DS_subrosa/DiasDatabaseError.jpg)

Looking at that screen shot it definitely looks like the forum wasn't connecting to the DB, as none of the navigation is there nor any kind of guest view. That would rule out a cookie issue on Sub's side and a database error on ours. I have informed the host that I thought there might be something badly configured (a script of some sort), as these problems are so on and off.

The server is performing way above accepable so it is not the hardware or a spammer hogging it, I just think they have to tweak the system to iron these issues out which I am actively pushing for.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on December 12, 2010, 10:23:02 PM: Thanks smokes. I didn't understand any of that but thank you all the same. ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 13, 2010, 02:31:46 AM: Quote from: christ on December 13, 2010, 01:54:22 AM
... as the bishop said to the actress ...

I love a good double entendre, as the actress said to the bishop.

I can confirm that the recent performance issues are not at our end, as I have received this response to my report:

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Our Reply:

You are correct that this is not a local problem for you nor is it related to server load itself. It looks like there is a problem with the network load on our end that we are working to mitigate as quickly as possible.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 13, 2010, 07:15:56 AM: You know smokes...I like this hosting company a lot. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 13, 2010, 12:30:51 PM: Quote from: dweez on December 13, 2010, 07:15:56 AM
You know smokes...I like this hosting company a lot. :)

I have never been with a host so responsive that's for sure, or reasonably priced. They pick a ticket up within 10 minutes and usually answer within an hour.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on December 13, 2010, 10:05:13 PM: That's got to be good.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 14, 2010, 04:44:53 PM: Quote
...there is a problem with the network load on our end...

That kind of acknowledgment would never, ever happen in Argentina. :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 16, 2010, 10:29:56 AM: Some more maint'

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Maintenance Notice

Dear *,
We are contacting you to inform you about some upcoming scheduled maintenance.

We are scheduling the replacement of the bad drive in the raid array on this machine for Dec 16th at 9PM EST. The services may interrupt during the replacement but will come back on-line immediately.

Any glitch around that time and you'll know what caused it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on December 19, 2010, 05:02:41 PM: I've been struggling to get on here for the last 20-30 minutes or so.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 19, 2010, 05:10:39 PM: Yes, me too. But now it's all OK.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 19, 2010, 05:38:45 PM: I missed any trouble unfortunately but that sort of time on a Sunday is synonymous with maintenance routines which would slow the server down.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 18, 2011, 03:48:34 AM: I received this today and can anyone confirm that we were down at all last night?

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Maintenance Notice

Dear *,

We are contacting you to to inform you about the network downtime we faced because of a massive DDos that we faced that affected the whole network the downtime was around 1 hour , we have now removed the attacked node and network traffic is back to normal now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 18, 2011, 05:56:38 AM: I tried to connect and it timed out. Not sure of the time but probably somewhere around 2am EST (give or take an hour or so).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 18, 2011, 04:00:10 PM: Apparently there are still residual problems from the Ddos attack, this is how are server looked for a couple of hours:

(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii319/smokeyb53/serverdown.jpg)

I'm hoping we won't experience many more of these glitches, but if we do, they should be resolved within an hour or 2.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 18, 2011, 07:25:21 PM: Yeah, right around 4pm EST I again experienced a time out.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 19, 2011, 08:57:58 AM: no connection at all yesterday :-X
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 19, 2011, 09:12:33 AM: Yeah, we were down good and proper.

The full explanation is here and I don't actually mind when there's a real hardware failure as that is bound to happen sooner or later, it's the little niggling issues that hosts don't admit to or solve that pisses me off - like how our last host behaved.

Quote
We are contacting you to inform you about the network outage we had earlier was because of a faulty electrical wiring that caused servers to reboot unexpectedly, servers were brought back and the faulty wiring were fixed.

Currently most servers are running automated RAID rebuild which will cause high server load till it finishes.

We apologize for any inconvenience and are working diligently to fully restore service.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on January 26, 2011, 06:50:54 PM: maybe im going crazy but I swear i replied to a post and then i saw it was posted but its not there any more...
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 26, 2011, 11:28:45 PM: I don't see anything in the deleted thread so I'm not sure what's going on.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on January 27, 2011, 01:19:43 AM: Had that prob I was telling you guys about a while back. I see now that we were really down.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 21, 2011, 04:23:44 PM: Is it just me or is the site/server really struggling? Everything looks fine with all services running and a low server load, but for me it is taking eons for pages from here to load.

If it isn't just me then I ask for the server to be looked at.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on February 21, 2011, 05:21:08 PM: I wasn't here for most of the afternoon but right now it's working perfectly for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on February 21, 2011, 09:12:30 PM: Didn't notice anything but I wasn't on much as I worked through the night and slept most of the day.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on February 21, 2011, 10:59:30 PM: Couple last days I have been here randomly and site works well for me every time.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 22, 2011, 05:46:40 AM: It was odd as the control pannel for our site was also loading slowly for me (which can only mean the problem was server side and not local to our site), but every thing looked completely normal when it did load. Other sites were ok so my ISP is an unlikely culprit, but I was waiting about 45 seconds for a page to fully load here for no apparent reason, so it seems.

Hopefully then it's local to my machine, which is an easy fix.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on February 22, 2011, 10:27:24 PM: I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary smokes. Dias works fine for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on March 04, 2011, 10:30:53 PM: Didn't note the time exactly, but I had really long page loads/timeouts somewhere between 11pm and 12am EST. It seems to have resolved now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 05, 2011, 04:16:23 AM: Yes I witnessed the same and gave up in the end. The server load was at 0.02 so it isn't a routine/process running in the backround somewhere, so I have asked for the server configuration to be looked at to see if something is off.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on March 05, 2011, 07:16:11 AM: It's working fine now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on March 05, 2011, 09:47:32 AM: The site wasn't working at about 1 PM (my time) for about 40 min.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 05, 2011, 04:44:14 PM: Thanks for that XT, I'm sure the host techs read this post so it's good to have confirmation.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on April 05, 2011, 01:00:14 AM: intermediate log onto site problems.
last 2 days.
cannot find address so i assume server maintenance
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 05, 2011, 02:27:55 AM: Thanks Goldie. I'll check to see if there was some downtime over the last couple of days.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on April 05, 2011, 05:02:24 AM: Yesterday I logged into the site in several opportunities at different times of the days with no problems at all.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 05, 2011, 06:27:05 AM: Nothing showing up in the logs either. The site is working really well for me personally, what with it being quick to respond and not spitting out that many errors, but that doesn't mean of course that there isn't a glitch somewhere so I'll keep looking just in case.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on April 05, 2011, 11:34:28 AM: happened this morning at 7.00 ish and last night.
no problems at the moment.
could have been a glitch in the server system
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 05, 2011, 01:29:01 PM: Thanks for posting Goldie and I have discovered that there was another (yes, "another") DoS attack that screwed with the servers again for a short while. All good now but it's a relief to know that our site is fine and wasn't the cause.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on April 13, 2011, 08:41:17 PM: Quote from: smokester on April 05, 2011, 01:29:01 PM
Thanks for posting Goldie and I have discovered that there was another (yes, "another") DoS attack that screwed with the servers again for a short while. All good now but it's a relief to know that our site is fine and wasn't the cause.

Wait, there was a first DoS attack? What gives?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 14, 2011, 02:45:24 AM: The company I use is really big and perhaps the most reasonable priced, but lately they have been hit by quite a few DoS attacks. A lot of spammers like to set up there as it's cheap and then they duly get booted off when they overload the servers, but they may hold a grudge eh..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on April 15, 2011, 06:00:00 AM: Diasfora timed out early Friday morning about between 03:00 - 04:30 when I tried it.

GMT+2 timezone.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 15, 2011, 06:39:34 AM: Duly noted.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 20, 2011, 01:26:44 PM: There has been some server changes of late and I have been getting some weird things happen to some elements of my sites. We have had a problem here that I didn't discover until half an hour ago so I have no idea how long the site was down? Anyone know?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on June 20, 2011, 02:20:22 PM: I've had no problems of late .
sometimes a little slow but thats all
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 20, 2011, 02:35:32 PM: smokes, I sent you the e-mail as soon as I noticed it down. Hadn't really checked in a few hours though so I can't nail down any closer time than that. Was it the server or the network down? Server Logs might be able to narrow down the timeline.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 20, 2011, 02:44:46 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 20, 2011, 02:35:32 PM
smokes, I sent you the e-mail as soon as I noticed it down. Hadn't really checked in a few hours though so I can't nail down any closer time than that. Was it the server or the network down? Server Logs might be able to narrow down the timeline.

For some reason the write permission was changed on the index file, and the host cannot confirm why that happened. I lost the ability to send email from another couple of site accounts the other day and that turned out to be that they had upped the server security that in turn meant you required SMTP authentication for outgoing.

I'm assuming that there have been some server tweaks that have had some affect on their clients' sites, and this was just one of them. Server load is still miniscule and all other systems are very good, so nothing to worry about as such.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 20, 2011, 03:09:33 PM: Yeah, it's annoying that they tweak it and don't properly notify the clients but having SMTP auth for sending, IMO, is "A Good Thing (tm)".
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on June 20, 2011, 10:20:12 PM: when I go to quote the scoreboard I get a loading bar but nothing happens.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on June 21, 2011, 11:21:40 AM: i switched browsers and cleared everything and I still cant update the scoreboard
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on June 21, 2011, 12:05:23 PM: Me too, mishca. Although I haven't tried clearing cookies yet.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2011, 03:23:00 PM: There must be other files with the wrong permissions. I'll see if I can sort it out this evening.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2011, 03:46:12 PM: I seem to be able to post scores now but not preview them? Let me know if anything has changed for either of you?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on June 21, 2011, 04:01:15 PM: No change for me
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2011, 05:59:23 PM: I can't pin down what's going on. I can post without problem but the preview option just never completes? I'll try some other things tomorrow and see if it improves the situation.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on June 21, 2011, 09:46:40 PM: No idea smokes. I'm at an internet cafe and haven't noticed anything yet.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 21, 2011, 09:50:28 PM: Told smokes this in our staff room but I also can't "quote". Hangs on the green bar just like mishca. My gut is the hosting people upgraded PHP on the server and it's an incompatible version...at least something along those lines.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on June 21, 2011, 09:54:06 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 21, 2011, 09:50:28 PM
Told smokes this in our staff room but I also can't "quote". Hangs on the green bar just like mishca. My gut is the hosting people upgraded PHP on the server and it's an incompatible version...at least something along those lines.

I seem to be able to.

Did you break the forum dweezie baby?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 22, 2011, 02:29:15 AM: Apparently our index is hitting our soft memory limit for some reason, and without knowing what changed, this is a toughy.

The final version of this software is our now so I could just shut us down for a weekend and clean up our bulletholed database (it's been through the mill somewhat) and set us up all nice and lemony fresh. It would make us stable for a long time coming and should improve our performance.

If that is the case I would ask members to prune their inboxes if they are getting bloated, as that can shave off 5-10% of our database size. No panic yet though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on June 22, 2011, 07:24:02 AM: very slow to load up i'm afraid.
ten again my malwarebytes is constantly blocking some site when i log on here and bid D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Skadi on June 22, 2011, 07:30:30 AM: When I was on the ipad yesterday, it kept squashing the page, and forcing it to half a screen. I could have also just tapped something and accidntally done it myself and it was due to human error :D so who knows ::) But it wasn't doing it on any other site.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 22, 2011, 05:42:39 PM: The limits have been removed but I can't see any improvement with any of the issues we have.

I'll see if we can upgrade without to much hassle, but it will take a little time even if that's the case.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 22, 2011, 07:57:40 PM: I still can't quote. For game scores, I've just been hitting "Modify" on the previous score and then c/p'ing it into a new post.

Btw, I cleaned up my PMs. Went from 107 to 6. ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2011, 02:33:39 AM: Thanks Dweez.
I am curious as to why some can quote and why some can't. I'll try clearing thesite cache.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on June 23, 2011, 10:10:34 AM: I'm liking the new forum look minus the redesigned smileys.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2011, 10:18:14 AM: We are indeed all "lemony fresh" now. Getting everything back the way it was will take me some time as I only have an hour here and there these days, and new ideas are always welcome while we are rebuilding.

The database is clean now so I might install some goodies that were unavailable to the old shoddy one. Watch this space..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2011, 10:52:25 AM: Quote from: christ on June 23, 2011, 10:50:00 AM
Where did my post go?

Your post was post the 2.30pm deadline. And I am afraid that unlike you, I have absolutely no way of retrieving it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on June 23, 2011, 12:48:51 PM: I can quote agaiN ! no problems so far and I do like the new look
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2011, 01:17:29 PM: Quote from: christ on June 23, 2011, 12:14:24 PM
I just got an announcement e-mail from "Daisfora"

Yes that was an oversight. But I'm sure you already knew that the database was archived at 2.30pm, no?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 23, 2011, 04:46:49 PM: Quote from: smokester on June 23, 2011, 01:17:29 PM
Yes that was an oversight. But I'm sure you already knew that database was archived at 2.30pm, no?

So you did notice that it's spelled "Daisfora" in the "bread crumbs"?

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/cf2ef447.png)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 23, 2011, 05:38:49 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 23, 2011, 04:46:49 PM
So you did notice that it's spelled "Daisfora" in the "bread crumbs"?

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/cf2ef447.png)

I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, regardless of the photographic evidence.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 23, 2011, 07:38:08 PM: Hehe.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Skadi on June 24, 2011, 08:52:17 AM: It came up in the search engine last night that way too. I'd thought we'd gotten renamed for some covert hipster reason that I'd missed reading about. Now I don't feel so left out 8)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 24, 2011, 10:29:44 AM: Quote from: christ on June 24, 2011, 07:53:08 AM
Yes.

... but that wasn't my point.

... as you well know, young fella-me-lad.

I have no idea what any of you are talking about.

Evidence?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 24, 2011, 01:16:51 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 23, 2011, 04:46:49 PM
(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/cf2ef447.png)

/me whistles innocently
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on June 25, 2011, 07:55:15 AM: wow away for a couple of days and i have to dig out my sunglasses ;D

dont know why but the lay out reminds me of my Natty set up on Unity desktop .???

Anyway less drivel from me.
nice set up ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 25, 2011, 09:04:52 AM: It's just the default theme that I have to keep for a while until I figure out what modifications we need both prepackaged and custom. Then we can start creating a new, personal theme for us.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Diabolico on June 27, 2011, 10:47:14 AM: (http://i.imgur.com/AI0dQ.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 27, 2011, 11:29:31 AM: 'shopped.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 28, 2011, 02:16:49 AM: Quote from: christ on June 28, 2011, 02:03:27 AM
smokes is in de-nial, smokes is in de-nial

la-lee-la-lee-la-la

I am a man after all.

PS. Do you ever read your email sir?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 28, 2011, 02:49:58 AM: It seems so. I mailed you on Friday with something that needed a reply. I'll CC it to your messages here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on June 28, 2011, 09:51:32 PM: Slowly accepting the new smileys.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 29, 2011, 01:55:42 PM: Quote from: christ on June 29, 2011, 05:57:23 AM
I never received the e-mail.

- christ

It was successfully sent, but was sending it even necessary?

BTW. It turns out we wuz, as a matter of fact, hacked. Which in my opinion was also the cause of that typo :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on June 29, 2011, 02:52:52 PM: Wow, a vendetta against the forum, I'd better look over my shoulder wherever I go from now on.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 29, 2011, 05:35:55 PM: Sorry about the outage, but I had to create new passwords for all my sites which meant they lost connection with the database until I reset them locally too.

Man, the work this poo has spawned...
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 30, 2011, 08:45:04 AM: Quote from: christ on June 30, 2011, 05:20:57 AM
I try to avoid replying to questions in advance of the question, as it can unsettle the recipient.

Which indeed, answers my next question.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on June 30, 2011, 09:35:49 AM: Quote from: smokester on June 30, 2011, 08:45:04 AM
Which indeed, answers my next question.

Sorry but thats funny poo right there......
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 30, 2011, 10:33:16 AM: Quote from: christ on June 30, 2011, 10:18:47 AM
Did we get a poo filter?

What does it do to golly?

(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii319/smokeyb53/haha.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on June 30, 2011, 03:32:03 PM: Interesting, I got this:
(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3774/pollyg.png)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 30, 2011, 04:37:06 PM: Quote from: hmed2390 on June 30, 2011, 03:32:03 PM
Interesting, I got this:
(http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/3774/pollyg.png)

That is very interesting as there is no "polly" in the censor list. What does politician or idiot come up as?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on July 01, 2011, 01:13:20 PM: Quote from: smokester on June 29, 2011, 01:55:42 PM

BTW. It turns out we wuz, as a matter of fact, hacked.
Emails leaked?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 01, 2011, 03:03:34 PM: if we were and my email was leaked.
just one of many .
not my main luckily ::)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on July 01, 2011, 04:32:56 PM: Quote from: smokester on June 30, 2011, 04:37:06 PM
That is very interesting as there is no "polly" in the censor list. What does politician or idiot come up as?

Politician and idiot seem to be synonymous for some reason........
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 01, 2011, 05:03:01 PM: Quote from: laama on July 01, 2011, 01:13:20 PM
Emails leaked?

Didn't hack the database, just modified all the index pages to add a little redirection script. Most virus acanners picked it up anyway, and we were rebuilt a day after it happened so no risk to any of us really.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on July 02, 2011, 09:44:25 AM: Quote from: laama on July 01, 2011, 01:13:20 PM
Emails leaked?

Don't worry laama baby, since you're already getting spammed, what's one more? :P
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: laama on July 05, 2011, 02:58:00 PM: Quote from: smokester on July 01, 2011, 05:03:01 PM
Didn't hack the database, just modified all the index pages to add a little redirection script. Most virus acanners picked it up anyway, and we were rebuilt a day after it happened so no risk to any of us really.
Good.

For some reason,a few new torrent site ad found my e-mail after the incident.

Quote from: subvinorosa on July 02, 2011, 09:44:25 AM
Don't worry laama baby, since you're already getting spammed, what's one more? :P
:P
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 08, 2011, 05:37:28 PM: I hadn't realised that the swear filter on/off switch wasn't enabled for members, and have now hopefully fixed that issue. Can someone please confirm whether they can see the option "Leave words uncensored" in their Profile (Look and Layout) settings?

Thanks
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on July 08, 2011, 06:45:42 PM: I can see it now and it defaulted to:
(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/f5a7fb30.png)

BTW, my problem with "Alt+S" is now gone. YAY!!! ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 09, 2011, 04:22:32 AM: Quote from: christ on July 09, 2011, 04:14:35 AM
I dropped a hint about that a while back.

Would that be a self-destructing hint?

I usually just PM ZTX and mention the bits on the boards that have yet to be corrected, but that was before you retook your position there. Now I just think about them really hard and.. voilà.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 09, 2011, 08:17:43 AM: when i hit the reply button , it seems to take a age to load
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 09, 2011, 05:32:15 PM: Quote from: christ on July 09, 2011, 01:22:26 PM
Is there any other sort? You did respond to it, but obviously missed the point. Buck up.

I'm as sharp as a whatchamacallit.

Quote from: christ on July 09, 2011, 01:22:26 PM
Demonoid (both main site and fora) has got real issues at the moment. Ever since the last upgrade, "Umlauf" has been really struggling - the codebase seems to be falling apart.

I can't even imagine the scale of the problem, and wouldn't want to even if I were a Code monkey.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on July 10, 2011, 02:15:27 PM: I haven't logged in to the fora for a while now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 24, 2011, 05:16:38 AM: when i post ,
the actual font / box size is larger than i'm use to
is it a new feature or is it just me ??????
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 24, 2011, 05:18:52 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on July 24, 2011, 05:16:38 AM
when i post ,
the actual font / box size is larger than i'm use to
is it a new feature or is it just me ??????

It's just set that way and when your peepers are as bad as mine, you'd consider it a blessing :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 24, 2011, 05:37:38 AM: Quote from: smokester on July 24, 2011, 05:18:52 AM
It's just set that way and when your peepers are as bad as mine, you'd consider it a blessing :)

ha ha ha i'm getting there :-[
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on July 24, 2011, 11:17:41 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on July 24, 2011, 05:16:38 AM
when i post ,
the actual font / box size is larger than i'm use to
is it a new feature or is it just me ??????

Lol, it throws me every time goldie.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on July 24, 2011, 11:29:32 AM: Darnnnn, I was sure my presbyopia was reciding! Thank you! >:( ;D ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on July 25, 2011, 03:29:57 PM: haha
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: knownassociate on July 27, 2011, 12:59:09 PM: Quote from: subvinorosa on July 10, 2011, 02:15:27 PM
I haven't logged in to the fora for a while now.

It's been forever since I last logged in there...also :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: hmed2390 on July 27, 2011, 05:44:37 PM: Hey KA, how are you? :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on September 05, 2011, 10:34:22 PM: Im.not sure.if anyone else had this problem but.from like 3pm to 12am. I.could not access the.site.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on September 06, 2011, 02:09:50 AM: me also from last night till now
server error :o
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 06, 2011, 02:12:30 AM: The server suffered from a serious hardware failure last night/afternoon and it wasn't easy for the host admins to get it up again. They are having to replace both drives one by one now as they were both dying, so there may be a glitch or 2 to come. I am however, reliably informed, that these won't be of any great disruption.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 06, 2011, 04:48:53 AM: The server is still having problems and the drive replacement happens a little later I am told.

Quote from: christ on September 06, 2011, 03:49:32 AM
Seems to be a global event - D is having major issues right now, too.

Did someone break the internet?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on September 06, 2011, 05:02:43 AM: I swear it wasn't me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Skadi on September 06, 2011, 08:38:19 AM: My ISP at home has had systems problems in a 60 block area around me the past couple of days, so, I just assumed it was on my side.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 06, 2011, 11:13:11 AM: Quote from: christ on September 06, 2011, 08:57:04 AM
That's normally one's job

I'm actually a bit disappointed you didn't warn me of this last Sunday.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Diabolico on September 06, 2011, 12:12:32 PM: Someone (apparently) typed Google into Google. That broke teh Internet.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on September 07, 2011, 12:28:48 AM: Quote from: christ on September 06, 2011, 03:49:32 AM
Seems to be a global event - D is having major issues right now, too.
dam just as i was about to win the photo assignment ;) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 07, 2011, 03:59:45 AM: There are still some unresolved issues that I can see pop up every now and then, but I am trying my hardest to get every niggle addressed and rectified.

My apologies if we experience any more glitches.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 07, 2011, 08:56:49 AM: I have been informed that all the data on the old server is slowly being copied to new hardware hence the high server loads and occasional page timeouts. Once this is done we should be back to normal and hopefully we will remain trouble free for some time.

Until then everything is a bit hit and miss and I can only apologise in advance if you do experience problems.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on September 08, 2011, 02:09:41 AM: We still love it here though, right?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 08, 2011, 02:25:06 AM: We're nearly there now as the host has informed me that there are just a few directories to be copied over. Things do look more stable but I expect we will have some teething to put up with.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 10, 2011, 02:58:48 AM: Everything is now back to normal and hopefully better then we were before.

Hopefully this may evn solve the little glitches we occasionaly experienced, especially by laama and Sub'.

Usual thing though; report any error here please.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 26, 2011, 02:54:21 PM: I know there are some ongoing problems as I have been monitoring the server and the load has been astronomical at times. I have asked them to get this to settle down as we have put up with more than enough lately, and I am sure they wil endeavour to sort things out swiftly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on September 26, 2011, 04:23:45 PM: I tried to log in at 12:15 and at about 12:50 I gave up. Now it's working perfectly fine.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 27, 2011, 02:22:16 AM: I see there were no posts throughout the night, were there other service problems that anyone witnessed?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on September 28, 2011, 04:47:21 AM: Problems today at 9.40 am. Tried again 30 mins later and all was well.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 28, 2011, 08:46:11 AM: Quote from: redlandslide on September 28, 2011, 04:47:21 AM
Problems today at 9.40 am. Tried again 30 mins later and all was well.

Thanks for that Red. I am getting a little tired of chasing the host when it really should be them informing us of issues. Nevertheless, these reports help both myself and the host narrow things down when searching through the logs.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 18, 2011, 08:37:04 AM: There was a DNS configuration problem this morning and is why we were down for a while. We are all good now and I apologise for the outage.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on November 20, 2011, 08:51:29 PM: Ive gotten the internal error message twice. but I just refreshed and it went away.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 21, 2011, 04:56:50 AM: There have been some troublesome accounts on our server that were using to for mail spamming. This overloads the server and all other accounts suffer because of it. The techs have apparently weeded them out and the server is looking in good shape again.

Thanks for the heads up though as it helps to pin down the time and then the offending account.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on November 25, 2011, 09:43:24 AM: I had problems to connect about 15 min ago. Now it's all back to normal.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 25, 2011, 10:30:59 AM: Quote from: xtopave on November 25, 2011, 09:43:24 AM
I had problems to connect about 15 min ago. Now it's all back to normal.

Yes I can see that the server is struggling a tad, but it is still within acceptable parameters so fingers crossed the high load will pass without to much hassle.

Thanks
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on November 28, 2011, 07:13:21 AM: Got the "connection error" message today at 9:11am. A refresh resolved it but figured I'd report it anyway.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 29, 2011, 02:26:42 AM: I have to admit that I am really unhappy with our service, post the IP change, as I think they have seen it as an opportunity to increase the amount of accounts on the server. The load is never really 'low', for any great length of time at least, and more often than not it clips over its safe limit and then we get page loading problems.

I have just renewed our contract in October so we'll have to stuggle on, but next year I'll get us a new host.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 14, 2011, 07:37:48 AM: I've got Connection problems, then Internal Server Error and then Database Error beginning about half hour ago.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 14, 2011, 09:08:52 AM: There seems to be something corrupting the tables. It's not us as far as I can tell, so I'll ask the host to investigate.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 14, 2011, 01:23:38 PM: Yeah, I got a DB error when I tried to post this morning too but refreshing the page and trying again worked.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 14, 2011, 01:42:25 PM: It must have been when the problem resolved. It lasted for at least 40 min.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 14, 2011, 02:26:57 PM: The problem didn't resolve by itself as the errors had corrupted an important database table. I fixed that and got us working again but I am keen to know just what caused the problem in the first place.

Please report any other glitches.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on December 14, 2011, 03:14:48 PM: Thank you, smokester. Seems to be working fine now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 14, 2011, 03:54:58 PM: Here's the error I got and it was around 9:20am (-ish) EST.

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/7549f775.png)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 15, 2011, 08:01:59 AM: Quote from: dweez on December 14, 2011, 03:54:58 PM
Here's the error I got and it was around 9:20am (-ish) EST.

That must have been at exactly the same time as I was fixing it as originally it was on line 2932, but as I fixed one bit of code it just moved somewhere else.

In the end it was the table that was borked and had to be fixed.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 14, 2012, 12:47:44 AM: Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
random error for me at the moment
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 14, 2012, 04:00:05 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on January 14, 2012, 12:47:44 AM
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
random error for me at the moment

I actually caught it once yesterday as well. I investigated and nothing looked wrong at that point, but now I have another report I'll keep an eye on the server.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on January 14, 2012, 07:34:32 AM: A few minutes ago I got "Connection problems" but I refreshed and everything was OK.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 15, 2012, 01:06:02 AM: I've been getting the SMF error a few times tonight. Once was in the "Name that Movie" thread at 1:08am EST. At 3:02am EST, again I got it when I clicked on my bookmark to the fora, which points to the "Show new replies to your posts" (https://fora.demonoid.me/index.php?action=unreadreplies ) link.

...And 3 times again at 3:04am EST as I attempted to post this.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 15, 2012, 02:08:21 AM: Connection Problems
first
MySQL server has gone away :o
then.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/Untitled.jpg)
then
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
again :-\ holly Moses what is happening ;D ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 15, 2012, 06:02:34 AM: This is a very strange error as the server looks completely healthy. It is affecting other sites so it isn't the forum that's broken (that's the good news), but I have yet to get any kind of handle on the error either from the main host or from our logs.

It is being worked on though and I'll keep us updated.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 15, 2012, 04:43:21 PM: Just got a new error (at least new to me) at around 6:40PM EST.

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/My_Work/diasfora_20120115_18-40EST.png)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on January 15, 2012, 06:22:42 PM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on January 14, 2012, 12:47:44 AM
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

I'm getting this one on occasion at the moment.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 16, 2012, 03:21:39 AM: Quote from: dweez on January 15, 2012, 04:43:21 PM
Just got a new error (at least new to me) at around 6:40PM EST.

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/My_Work/diasfora_20120115_18-40EST.png)

That message now appears because the host suggested I update the site files even though 2 domains running different versions are having the same problem. I can update the database but I don't think that is the cause of the problem, as it seems that it sporadically loses some of the connection to the database.

They are now telling me that it is because of what I have set as the database username on another domain - which would be funny if it wasn't so important.

I am getting nowhere with the host so I am going to request migration to a different server or just cancel this account for a U.K based account which is more expensive but far more solid.

Hopefully this update will post when I press the button, but if not I'll mail it out.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 16, 2012, 01:41:33 PM: I'm going to move us to a different server soon and I have decided to out the site into maintenance mode for a day while it happens (to avoid XT and myself getting trapped in an alternate dimension - even though I quite enjoyed the experience).

I'll newsletter your email accounts when it is due to happen and don't forget that you can always mail me at [email protected] if you have any problems logging back in after the migration,
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on January 16, 2012, 01:48:58 PM: Quote from: smokester on January 16, 2012, 01:41:33 PM
(to avoid XT and myself getting trapped in an alternate dimension - even though I quite enjoyed the experience).

Good times, baby... ;D :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 16, 2012, 02:02:22 PM: Got a new one.

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/My_Work/d082452f.png)

Do you have a test site exhibiting the same symptoms? Maybe upgrading it to test might help? Are all your sites running the same levels of software?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 16, 2012, 02:19:39 PM: Oh, btw, I'm still getting the SMF connection issue fairly often. I haven't mentioned it because it's already been mentioned several times but just letting you know it's still going on.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 16, 2012, 02:25:34 PM: Quote from: dweez on January 16, 2012, 02:02:22 PM
Got a new one.

(http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo51/dw33z/My_Work/d082452f.png)

Do you have a test site exhibiting the same symptoms? Maybe upgrading it to test might help? Are all your sites running the same levels of software?

Not to worry about that as I was just updating the DB to match our site version. There is definitely some very iffy configuring going on with our server as it lost the connection with the database 18 time while upgrading? Maybe you should tell them what's what Dweezo?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 16, 2012, 03:27:01 PM: Apparently the problem has been corrected so can anyone who gets an error from now on, please post it here so I can confirm whether the error has been fixed or not.

Ta
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 16, 2012, 03:29:55 PM: Ah, I should have realized you were probably upgrading software and such. I didn't get any errors this round of perusing the boards.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 06, 2012, 02:56:41 AM: You've probably noticed but we have that shaky database error recurring again. It doesn't knock us out completely and I'm sure it's just a configuration file on the server that has a bug and should be easily sorted out by the host. With our fingers crossed that is.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 06, 2012, 12:49:56 PM: Server clock was playing silly buggers apparently which screwed with connecting to the database. All fixed now I am told.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on March 07, 2012, 05:45:05 AM: Yeah, time differences are pretty important when dealing with databases. I haven't been on a lot the last few days because I've been in a training class at work that's goes all week but I did notice an SMF error the other day.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 01, 2012, 02:37:58 AM: We were hacked again this morning and this has been happening a lot to me lately mainly with Wordpress sites (which is not that unusual). It seems it was an automated hack that can somehow get into the SMF software without too much effort. I'll try and find the hole and plug it and thanks for reporting it Dweez as I may have been out all day today and not seen it. I have to go and disinfect the place now - anyone have any extra strong bleach going spare?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on April 01, 2012, 03:04:12 AM: (http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/Screenshot08h42m56s.jpg)
as seen earlier
i did send email via demons den
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 01, 2012, 03:35:14 AM: Man, they copied dozens of write enabled index files to every folder and sub folder on the site, presumably so they can hack it again easily whenever they choose.

I say 'they', but most of these things are automated bots - at least they are with Wordpress hacks.

I'll see if I can beef up security.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 03, 2012, 04:52:47 AM: I just had an hour whereby I couldn't connect to the entire hosting company. After some research, apparently this sometimes occurs for international visitors (they are based in the U.S) so I wonder if any of our American friends friends witnessed this? Though by rights they should have all still been asleep.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on April 03, 2012, 06:40:13 AM: off and on all morning for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on April 03, 2012, 06:53:59 AM: I was zonked out from 11pm EST until about 30 min ago so I didn't notice anything.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on April 07, 2012, 07:03:36 PM: actually, i just got a couple of timeouts just now (Canada) :-\

*seems fine now though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 08, 2012, 06:59:01 AM: Quote from: townie2 on April 07, 2012, 07:03:36 PM
actually, i just got a couple of timeouts just now (Canada) :-\

*seems fine now though.

Hopefully just another account on the server hogging the resources momentarily.

Thanks for the heads-up though Townie.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on April 08, 2012, 04:36:49 PM: probably all it was Smokes, still seems fine now :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 23, 2012, 03:35:05 AM: I think the server clock is resetting again which creates problems connecting to our database at times. I haven't had an error on the site yet but the software is reporting errors intermittently so I think we will get a few until this issue is resolved. Techs are are work as we speak, but as usual, if you catch an error please report it here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on May 23, 2012, 06:12:32 AM: the site actually seems to load a little faster for me.
* once in awhile i get the SMF connection failure notice, but i just hit "back" then try again, and it loads no prob.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on May 23, 2012, 05:20:55 PM: I got smf error twice
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 24, 2012, 02:37:08 AM: I have been trying for over a day now to get to the bottom of this and get it fixed, but it is being a tad elusive to source.

Thanks for the info and I'll keep trying.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on May 24, 2012, 09:23:23 AM: after i post i get
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/Screenshot16h21m15s.jpg)
then sometimes
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/Screenshot16h22m16s.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 24, 2012, 02:43:29 PM: I have to admit that the help from the host is making things a lot worse. I have just had to repair the database twice after apparently it was fixed by the host. I had already checked it and found no errors and the connection error we have been getting is still there and is getting worse - I had to load this page 3 times just to post.

I'll keep at it folks.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on May 24, 2012, 03:44:58 PM: I've got this: Table './diasfora_final_v2/smf_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired many times today but now seems to be working OK.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 24, 2012, 04:47:20 PM: Quote from: xtopave on May 24, 2012, 03:44:58 PM
I've got this: Table './diasfora_final_v2/smf_sessions' is marked as crashed and should be repaired many times today but now seems to be working OK.

^ That's what happened to the database after the host fixed it.

I then had to fix it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on May 24, 2012, 05:06:44 PM: i only got timed out once, big improvement from earlier today when i too just kept getting the database error.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 24, 2012, 09:36:34 PM: Dang, sorry you've been having so much trouble with it smokester. I've been super busy at work lately so only get to check the boards right before I go to bed and I haven't noticed any problems myself.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 25, 2012, 02:29:25 AM: Quote from: dweez on May 24, 2012, 09:36:34 PM
Dang, sorry you've been having so much trouble with it smokester. I've been super busy at work lately so only get to check the boards right before I go to bed and I haven't noticed any problems myself.

Dweez, it's even worse (or funnier) this time than the ticket I showed you last time. They are insisting it has to do with the diasfora database when I am getting the error across 3 dynamic sites. No matter how hard I push this multi-site error cannot be specific to one, they still can't hear me.

The two guys that fix these kinds of server issues for me easily do not appear to be around and I getting worried that perhaps they have left the building. So I am afraid we are at the mercy of the "we do our best" team that don't seem to be able to spot simple configuration issues like this one - after all, the last one was just the server clock resetting intermittently.

Hopefully it will get better soon.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 25, 2012, 03:08:21 PM: I think we're all good now and there hasn't been a database error for the last 6 or 7 hours. Please report any error pages you may encounter as usual though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: subvinorosa on May 27, 2012, 02:40:31 AM: None for me so far smokes.

Will report if I see anything.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on May 27, 2012, 07:41:12 AM: no problems here either. i did notice yesterday on the 'noid similar problems, SMF errors frequently.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 27, 2012, 08:02:17 AM: Quote from: townie2 on May 27, 2012, 07:41:12 AM
no problems here either. i did notice yesterday on the 'noid similar problems, SMF errors frequently.

Most of the services running on the server hosting that site, are on Prozac.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on May 27, 2012, 08:03:51 AM: that would explain a lot ;D
i think they get a lot of DDOS attacks too.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on May 27, 2012, 08:29:59 AM: Quote from: townie2 on May 27, 2012, 07:41:12 AM
i did notice yesterday on the 'noid similar problems, SMF errors frequently.

They have been with troubles for quite a while now.

Diasfora is working perfectly for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on May 27, 2012, 08:30:41 AM: noid always has errors on their forum
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 10, 2012, 03:52:36 PM: There was a period a little while ago when I couldn't access the site or even then entire hosting company's site. They must have had a power spike or something or maybe even a power out in the district.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on June 27, 2012, 08:03:19 AM: I've been having troubles posting for about 15 min now. I haven't tried the forum for the last 12 hrs but right now it takes a lot of time to load the pages (sometimes).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 27, 2012, 09:24:37 AM: Quote from: xtopave on June 27, 2012, 08:03:19 AM
I've been having troubles posting for about 15 min now. I haven't tried the forum for the last 12 hrs but right now it takes a lot of time to load the pages (sometimes).

That sounds like a server load spike and I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks XT.

I am out early and on a job at present and so have less time here (sob), so these reports are really useful otherwise I'd have no idea of how the service is going. I'll run some maintenance anyhow in case it's our end.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on August 06, 2012, 04:51:21 PM: We seem to be back. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 06, 2012, 05:31:52 PM: The server was being obstinate and it took a little while for the host to sort it out.

Lucky though as I'd thought the D'noid bug had gone airborne.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on September 02, 2012, 10:35:53 AM: takes a few minutes for me to post.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 02, 2012, 10:56:40 AM: Quote from: mishca09 on September 02, 2012, 10:35:53 AM
takes a few minutes for me to post.

I'm getting that too although the server looks in good shape. We may need some maintenance doing so I'll get right on it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on September 02, 2012, 11:31:13 AM: Posting fairly immediately for me (at 1:30PM EST)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 02, 2012, 12:38:59 PM: I optimised the database by about 3mb, which means it was in pretty bad shape beforehand. My bad.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: redlandslide on October 18, 2012, 05:17:24 AM: The site seems quite slow at the moment.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on October 18, 2012, 06:25:25 AM: I haven't tried it since about 10 hours ago but now it's working fine for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: townie2 on October 18, 2012, 12:22:10 PM: no prob here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 18, 2012, 12:53:26 PM: Quote from: redlandslide on October 18, 2012, 05:17:24 AM
The site seems quite slow at the moment.

Oh dear. Best I postpone my hols to keep an eye on things.

Or maybe not.

12 hours and counting.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on October 18, 2012, 02:59:59 PM: Go go go, xtop and I got this. Get the golly out already!

;) Seriously, enjoy your vacation, think nothing of us, play with your kids, woo your lady, and drink copious amounts of booze!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 18, 2012, 05:11:59 PM: Everything is looking good both with our database and the server, so as long as Nobbo doesn't take his clothes off again, nothing should break.

Famous last words most probably.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on October 18, 2012, 11:31:52 PM: looks like its party time then
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 22, 2012, 08:48:00 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on October 18, 2012, 11:31:52 PM
looks like its party time then

it is for me dude. :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on October 23, 2012, 10:54:01 AM: Quote from: smokester on October 22, 2012, 08:48:00 AM
it is for me dude. :)
as i'm sitting in a caravan in pea soup fog, i can only be envious of your weather
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on October 26, 2012, 12:37:15 PM: Some people have been complaining about the fora being slow. I've been checking out the forum on and off for several hours and I didn't notice anything weird.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 26, 2012, 01:04:05 PM: Quote from: xtopave on October 26, 2012, 12:37:15 PM
Some people have been complaining about the fora being slow.

I have a symbiotic relationship with the site and as I am currently idling about with beer in hand, I assume the site is too (in its own way).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on October 26, 2012, 01:19:22 PM: I really haven't noticed any issues either. I did see a number of indexing crawlers but I assume no more than normal.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on October 26, 2012, 01:21:46 PM: That being said, I just posted on "Ban the person above." and it took about 3-4 seconds to post. The other threads I posted on were immediate though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: bubu on October 26, 2012, 05:42:08 PM: I didn't have problem either and no problem in posting too
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on October 28, 2012, 02:23:08 PM: Slow right now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 03, 2012, 01:04:33 PM: I'm back.

Optimised the DB which always helps to speed things up a little.

Thanks for holding the fort Dweez.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: SACPOP on November 03, 2012, 01:18:38 PM: That was quick! Welcome back.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on November 03, 2012, 01:50:02 PM: that was a quick holls.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on November 03, 2012, 02:06:42 PM: Welcome back smokes...now get to work! ;)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on November 03, 2012, 02:41:36 PM: Quote from: smokester on November 03, 2012, 01:04:33 PM
I'm back.

Welcome back, smokes! I hope you had a good time. But mostly I hope you brought us a bottle of rum. ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 03, 2012, 04:01:27 PM: Thanks very much everyone, and the holiday was terrific. BTW Goldie, I met and befriended another fella and his wife and daughter, and it transpired that he actually works at your place (If it's Rolls Royce Derby that is). He is an engine designer and was telling me about the new engine for Boeing that has to have a 5% efficiency saving, which he said is pretty unheard of.

Thanks XT and I managed 2 bottles of Bounty, 2 bottles of Kweyol spiced, 2 bottles of Coconut rum and a traditional spiced bottle (full of all the cloves, cinnamon etc) bought from Castries market. Of course, I am going to drink it all myself in everyone's absence.

7 bottles of Baron's hot sauce too. Damn my case was heavy..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on November 04, 2012, 05:18:57 AM: Quote from: smokester on November 03, 2012, 04:01:27 PM
Thanks very much everyone, and the holiday was terrific. BTW Goldie, I met and befriended another fella and his wife and daughter, and it transpired that he actually works at your place (If it's Rolls Royce Derby that is). He is an engine designer and was telling me about the new engine for Boeing that has to have a 5% efficiency saving, which he said is pretty unheard of.

Thanks XT and I managed 2 bottles of Bounty, 2 bottles of Kweyol spiced, 2 bottles of Coconut rum and a traditional spiced bottle (full of all the cloves, cinnamon etc) bought from Castries market. Of course, I am going to drink it all myself in everyone's absence.

7 bottles of Baron's hot sauce too. Damn my case was heavy..
No i work at aetc ltd leicester, we supply them though with various vanes.
in the aerospace market 5% is a lot of saving.

whats the sauce like, HOT :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 04, 2012, 05:34:25 AM: I had said you lived in Leicester and worked on RR engines, and he then supposed you worked in the Derby plant which I didn't know enough about to be sure he wasn't right.

The Baron's is the best hot sauce ever made but the missus bought some homemade stuff from the market there which I'm sure would light if you put a match to it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 10, 2012, 04:18:59 AM: We have a very high load at the moment that will make the site slow.

I am working on it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on November 12, 2012, 10:03:23 AM: how you gonna dump your load
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on November 12, 2012, 11:08:27 AM: Ew
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 23, 2012, 12:35:51 AM: I have had the following error.
(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/Screenshot07h36m08s.jpg)

any idea why ?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 23, 2012, 01:53:43 AM: Did you try to post twice within 5 seconds? To prevent flooding, mostly by spammers, fora often have a flood control setting preventing someone from posting a 2nd time until the flood interval is reached (ours is obviously 5 seconds). Maybe you accidentally hit the "Post" button twice. Both clicks registered, trying to post the same comment twice, the second being the "second post".

The accidental double-click has happened to me before.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on December 23, 2012, 02:13:49 AM: Didnt realize that i was too quick for the fora ;D ;D ;D ;D
Thanks for the info
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 23, 2012, 06:33:37 AM: It's exactly as Dweez says.

And, who was that masked man?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on January 13, 2013, 03:51:34 PM: Couldn't connect for a couple of mins. I was a little worried. The error message was: cannot find page. Everything seems back to normal now
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: bubu on January 13, 2013, 04:18:07 PM: Couldn't connect too for a while, and not all the pages open properly
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on January 13, 2013, 04:33:18 PM: ditto @ what bubu said minus not all pages opening properly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 13, 2013, 06:26:24 PM: Hmm.. that's too long to be a server spike.

I'll keep an eye on the server for a while.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on January 14, 2013, 10:17:22 AM: Things weren't working well for the last hour or so. The forum looks OK now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 14, 2013, 01:05:37 PM: Quote from: xtopave on January 14, 2013, 10:17:22 AM
Things weren't working well for the last hour or so. The forum looks OK now.

There might be a dodgy account on the server, like a spammer or someone running their own resource intensive scripts. Usually they get booted off quite quickly or advised that their activity is hogging the server, and then things improve.

If I can catch the server overloading, then I can get them to jack the offending account even faster.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 14, 2013, 02:05:48 PM: I haven't been able to check the fora frequently enough during the day so I haven't noticed anything
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 14, 2013, 02:24:30 PM: Quote from: dweez on January 14, 2013, 02:05:48 PM
I haven't been able to check the fora frequently enough during the day so I haven't noticed anything

I don't know if you recall, but one of the idiots who was hogging the server a couple of years ago, turned out to be me. It was when I had the testing forum which was a copy of this one (and others) all running an automatic maintenance routine at the same time that I'd forgotten to stagger. Slightly red faced when the host eventually came back to me after studying all the logs and emails of me shouting at them, and told me it was my sites.

Whoops!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 22, 2013, 01:59:51 PM: There may have been some server upgrades a short while ago as they have been scheduled and the load was astronomical which could indicate that.

Anyway, I yelled at some folk and we seem to be back and functional.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 22, 2013, 06:31:33 PM: Was this the maintenance where they were moving our server into a different rack in the same datacenter?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 23, 2013, 10:52:25 AM: Quote from: dweez on January 22, 2013, 06:31:33 PM
Was this the maintenance where they were moving our server into a different rack in the same datacenter?

I was trying to be kind I think. Truth is, the load was at 204.8 (shouldn't go above 10) and I had to tell them that. I did politely add that it wasn't my job to monitor the server, it is theirs.

They need you dweez (small d) as I think their admins take too many naps.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 23, 2013, 05:12:40 PM: /me tries to remember what a nap feels like.

Holy crud! Don't they have some kind of automation monitoring the server loads? Say, if cpu/ram/blah usage > {static percentage}, then send an e-mail to Joe Topdog. I would have thought a monitoring system would have been standard for a venture like theirs. Unless you were spot on with the nap thing.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 23, 2013, 06:06:53 PM: They aren't really that bad so I shouldn't moan. Some hosts I've been with didn't even have people working around the clock. That said, our host has some great customer service but not that many techs. The irony being: if they had enough admins they wouldn't need all the support staff.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: SACPOP on February 03, 2013, 11:14:36 PM: I usually use my ISP's DNS servers, but I recently tried OpenDNS and this is what I got when I attempted to visit Diasfora:

(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/retawd/Untitled_zps3e4ba453.png)

What's really annoying is that they don't give you a "let me do it anyway" option, essentially blocking the site entirely to OpenDNS users. My ISP's DNS servers have no problem with this site and I have switched back.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 04, 2013, 07:25:07 AM: I can only presume that's a hangover from an attack we were subject to in the past. There isn't trace of any malicious or unauthorised files anywhere in this account, and is is regularly scanned by the main host.

I used to like fishing.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on February 04, 2013, 07:40:30 AM: I use Google's DNS, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Either that or my work's DNS.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 24, 2013, 11:18:40 AM: The server is undergoing some maintenance today which would explain any sluggish page loading etc.

It should be finished soon if it isn't already.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on February 24, 2013, 11:49:24 AM: Cool, I've been on a few times and haven't noticed anything.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on March 29, 2013, 08:00:16 PM: I got failed to load or something page for a while , when trying to connect to diasfora…. but its back now :) so please ignore the PMs I sent on DD.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on March 30, 2013, 07:58:43 AM: Yep, I had troubles connecting for about 3/4 hours and then I quit trying.

It's working perfectly now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 30, 2013, 12:23:47 PM: The database is failing to connect again so I presume the are some mySql issues afoot. I'll poke the host.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on March 30, 2013, 12:59:28 PM: With a fork?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on March 30, 2013, 01:37:49 PM: Use a spoon. It's duller. It will hurt more.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on April 06, 2013, 01:20:18 PM: Site wouldn't load for me around 3:05 EST. It's now 15 minutes later and it seems fine.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: tarascon on April 06, 2013, 03:12:40 PM: same thing here--about 90 minutes ago.
the site didn't come up as even existing (i have it bookmarked)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 06, 2013, 03:54:57 PM: Everything looks stable now so it was probably just a load spike.

Thanks for the heads up as it is always good to have a record.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on April 06, 2013, 03:59:27 PM: Quote from: dweez on April 06, 2013, 01:20:18 PM
Site wouldn't load for me around 3:05 EST. It's now 15 minutes later and it seems fine.

I didn't witnessed this but about 15 minutes before that it happened the same thing for some minutes and all went back to normal.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 29, 2013, 12:33:21 PM: I'm having loading issues my end and can anyone confirm if this is happening to them as it could be an issue for me locally?

Thanks
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on April 29, 2013, 01:22:18 PM: Site seems pretty responsive to me...xtopave?

ADDED:

After saying that and hitting "Send", the site took about 10 seconds to post my message.

ADDENDUM2:
The above modify posted right away...must be intermittent.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: SACPOP on April 29, 2013, 01:34:29 PM: I have noticed recently that occasionally when I refresh a page, it only loads about halfway so I end up with half a page of red/white theme and half a page of just black background. Normally I blame any issues with web pages on Firefox's accelerated descent into horrific, painful, ridiculous, avoidable, "Oh my God why are they doing this?!?!?" awfulness, but I'll mention it anyway as it is a "loading issue" and the problem may be site related as well.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 29, 2013, 01:40:15 PM: The mail server is also showing errors so something is definitely up.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on April 29, 2013, 06:14:33 PM: the martians are coming
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 29, 2013, 06:21:55 PM: They came, messed with stuff, and left.

I'm not tidying up after them. Stupid martians.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on April 29, 2013, 06:25:25 PM: Did they at least leave any moon rock? You could sell it on eBay
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 29, 2013, 06:33:34 PM: Quote from: mishca09 on April 29, 2013, 06:25:25 PM
Did they at least leave any moon rock? You could sell it on eBay

They installed a new support system for the host that you have to be able to read martianish to operate. I can't and Google translate was just pants so I spammed a couple of buttons that looked like tickets and we seem to be back to normal now.

No moon rock though.

BTW, both those statements are true.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on May 01, 2013, 12:40:40 AM: Have had a couple of
failed to connect to servers too busy
this morning ?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 01, 2013, 02:30:20 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on May 01, 2013, 12:40:40 AM
Have had a couple of
failed to connect to servers too busy
this morning ?

I checked and it looks like there could have been a load spike for a little while as it spat out some database connection errors. They happen and are pretty much unavoidable, so if that was the case we should be ok now. Any more and could mean that the server clock or something is off again. I'll keep an eye on things.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Autumn on May 03, 2013, 10:34:29 AM: between 11 and 11:30 i got an error when trying to connect to the site. lasted all of five seconds or whatever.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on May 20, 2013, 09:46:39 PM: Have you been giving out invitations lately? I'm seeing some unfamiliar names on tonight in the restricted areas of the site and it makes me wonder about the security here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 20, 2013, 09:48:22 PM: 6pair, PM me and smokes the names. I know dan gave out a couple a few minutes ago.

EDIT: Nevermind, saw the name in the d2 channel. I'll check it out.

EDIT 2: Webslave is legit. So is the other new user, Leonora.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dandrummerman on May 20, 2013, 09:52:49 PM: I'm on an inviting spree :s
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on May 20, 2013, 11:48:08 PM: Thanks, Dan. I was just concerned that the site was being hacked again. I've been on other fora that were deluged by Russian bots, so I didn't know if that was what was happening here.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 21, 2013, 02:50:16 AM: The invite system keeps us completely locked down and, to date, has never been compromised even after being hacked. Any new members have be screened and sanctioned by one of the members, who are the best judge of character.

Any new faces are all welcome and are all legit.

I'm lucky, I got in through the back door else I'd still be out in the cold no doubt.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 29, 2013, 06:37:10 PM: Just got the SMF error when I attempted to go to the "Show unread posts since last visit. (http://www.diasfora.co.uk/index.php?action=unread)" link (that's my bookmark for DF...I rarely get to the main home page) at around 8:32pm EST (or EDT...never know which I'm on). An F5 resolved it right away.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on May 29, 2013, 08:44:03 PM: When I click show new replies your posts I get a database error message...
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on May 30, 2013, 05:29:29 AM: I've just got: "Connection Problems. Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later." when I tried to log out.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on May 30, 2013, 07:25:34 AM: Ditto ^
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 30, 2013, 12:56:28 PM: The server has chucked out about 40 or 50 errors in the last 16 hours but as I haven't been around, I can't tell whether it's local to us or server wide. I have a few dynamic sites on this server and I am trying to see the error on one of those so I know how to approach this.

I'll check for database errors here in the meantime.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 30, 2013, 04:07:31 PM: I confirmed that this is a server side problem as I recreated the error on another site. It's just a case of convincing the main host of that now.

Sorry for any inconvenience.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on May 30, 2013, 04:26:11 PM: Thank you smokester! Looks to be working fine now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 30, 2013, 05:05:04 PM: Quote from: xtopave on May 30, 2013, 04:26:11 PM
Thank you smokester! Looks to be working fine now.

Frayed knot. Here's my Yahoo account that receives notifications, and your post is the one at 23.26. You can see it's still spitting out errors after that:

(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii319/smokeyb53/anis/daterrs_zps5afb4b26.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: brickbatz on May 30, 2013, 05:46:37 PM: I had to refresh the page just now to get to the site. Before I restarted my computer I occasionally had to refresh pages when I selected a different topic.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Autumn on May 30, 2013, 05:56:33 PM: I got a couple errors... just needed a refresh..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 30, 2013, 09:28:25 PM: Got a new error just a minute ago (11:25pm EST). No SMF error this time. This time it said "MySQL server has gone away". Refresh fixed it but man, did that scare me for a hot second.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: SACPOP on May 30, 2013, 09:44:27 PM: I'm getting them now, too, but refresh seems to fix it most of the time.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: brickbatz on May 31, 2013, 01:51:37 AM: Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

After refresh

MySQL server has gone away

After the second refresh the page loaded.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: brickbatz on May 31, 2013, 01:54:29 AM: Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.

After refresh

MySQL server has gone away

I got the connection problem message again when I tried to post this.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 31, 2013, 03:33:12 AM: The host is doing the usual and not really listening. It's always akin to the ISP issue you get when you connection is down, whereby they get you to jump through hoops until finally they realise the problem is at their end.

I have managed to get this error on other sites by continuously refreshing, which means that mySQL their end is not functioning correctly. I could set up Wordpress, Joomla etc in subdomains and still get the error, so it is pretty unequivocal it a problem with the server again.

In the past the responses have made dweez and I laugh, especially as he's the real Macoy, but I am meant to be at work as I write so I am in laughing mood.

One thing of note though: the host has a new support system the is very pretty to look at, however, the ticket I raised yesterday I do not have the permission to read today. So to respond to it, I had to start a new ticket. I'm guessing that to respond to that, I'll have to start another and so on.

Great new system and whatever happened to the idea that "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"?..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 31, 2013, 07:25:41 AM: Quote from: dweez on May 30, 2013, 09:28:25 PM
Got a new error just a minute ago (11:25pm EST). No SMF error this time. This time it said "MySQL server has gone away". Refresh fixed it but man, did that scare me for a hot second.

Happened again at 9:21am EST.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 31, 2013, 12:34:15 PM: It's happening all the time. I wish they'd just reboot the mySQL and see if that helps. It's fixed things outright in the past.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 31, 2013, 09:33:43 PM: Just got the SMF error again (11:30pm EST). Do you want me to keep reporting or just assume it's gonna continue to happen until they get their heads out of their collective asses?

ADDED:
Got the SMF again as I tried to post this message.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 01, 2013, 08:03:22 AM: Quote from: dweez on May 31, 2013, 09:33:43 PM
Just got the SMF error again (11:30pm EST). Do you want me to keep reporting or just assume it's gonna continue to happen until they get their heads out of their collective asses?

ADDED:
Got the SMF again as I tried to post this message.

At the moment I'm hearing nothing from them so there has been no attempt to fix it yet (you are going to continue getting the error). I am notified every time it happens so reporting it is not that important unless you receive a new, undocumented error.

As soo as there is some progress I'll post it up here.

Sorry again everybody.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 01, 2013, 08:04:10 AM: Spoke too soon. When trying to post the above I got this error:

"Lost connection to MySQL server during query" - so that's new.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 01, 2013, 03:41:56 PM: The host we have today, does not resemble the one I signed up to in 2009. There has been no improvement with this issue, nor has there been any correspondence whatsoever from customer support. So called "improvements" to their system, have resulted in quite the opposite to their service.

So I have decided to move host as soon as it is convenient for me to do so. Our contract does not expire until October, but if I can migrate this month, I will. Hopefully it will be straightforward but sometimes it can be a little tricky, and either way, there will be some loss of service.

I'll keep you all posted and I fear that the error won't go away any time soon.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on June 01, 2013, 04:13:21 PM: I saw a message that said "SMF server went away" in plaintext, I think someone is bless'ed with you.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 01, 2013, 04:28:36 PM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on June 01, 2013, 04:13:21 PM
I saw a message that said "SMF server went away" in plaintext, I think someone is bless'ed with you.

It's a simple fix but it appears that they've done away with anyone remotely techie, in tech support.

It's not just me, our host is fast becoming the scourge of reseller hosts. There are similar reports and complaints in webhosting forums everywhere.

I've had a chat with our soon to be new host, and they seem to have their priorities exactly right.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on June 01, 2013, 07:06:19 PM: I've had similar problems. Had to refresh three or four times before I could log in today.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on June 01, 2013, 08:11:20 PM: multiple issues, can deal with it, but not typical. Have to refresh on ever page turn.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 02, 2013, 04:54:21 AM: In my experience, MySQL will just pack up altogether in the end and they'll have to reboot it.

3 days without any reply for emergency level tickets. This host has now, well and truly, become completely untenable.

I'll sign up to a new host this week and claim a refund for our remaining months on the contract. With any luck, I may receive it by Christmas 2016.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on June 02, 2013, 08:36:37 AM: I've been around the site for more than 1/2 hour without any problems at all.

Again thank you, smokes, for keeping Diasfora alive!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on June 02, 2013, 08:53:25 AM: Thanks!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: ohcheap1 on June 02, 2013, 10:25:54 AM: Upon login had to refresh twice. Ill keep updating if any other issues
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 02, 2013, 01:13:49 PM: Quote from: ohcheap1 on June 02, 2013, 10:25:54 AM
Upon login had to refresh twice. Ill keep updating if any other issues

An hour after this post (whatever that is in old money) I had word that MySQL had been completely re-installed and should now be working ok.

If anyone gets the error post this post (sod the grammar wonk), please post it up so I can investigate further.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 02, 2013, 01:18:29 PM: Ok, scratch that. I have just checked the emailed notifications and they have not stopped after being informed that the system was working how it should:

(http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii319/smokeyb53/anis/errrrs4_zps079d223f.jpg)

Oh well, here we go again...
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on June 02, 2013, 06:25:49 PM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v223/8ullfrog/PUBLIC/69aa5f13-8b8a-4575-adb8-5f134c3ba4de_zpsc40437b5.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/8ullfrog/media/PUBLIC/69aa5f13-8b8a-4575-adb8-5f134c3ba4de_zpsc40437b5.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 03, 2013, 02:09:32 AM: Quote from: christ on June 03, 2013, 01:43:50 AM
What if someone gets the error post post post?

They should post it, just as long as they're not pist.

BTW 8ully, the host reads this thread for details.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on June 03, 2013, 04:32:50 AM: LOL, in that case Belcris sucks. Very bad fanfic. Thought I'd redlined that tab, whoops.

Oh, and it's still happening, server ate my last post so I had to rewrite it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 03, 2013, 07:27:16 AM: It's been 2hrs22mins since I had an error report and I have loaded pages here at least 50 times within that timeframe.

They may have fixed it.

What's the odds when I go to post this I get the error?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 03, 2013, 09:41:30 AM: The storm has passed.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on June 10, 2013, 12:49:52 PM: very sluggish atm, or my tinternet is crap atm.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 10, 2013, 03:02:13 PM: It could have been a spike, they have been known to happen.

I'm still going to switch host and give the new lot a go, but as it can be quite a tricky procedure in our case, I'm no longer in a particular hurry.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on June 29, 2013, 07:41:18 PM: Site wouldn't load For like an hour and a half....said it was server connection problems.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 30, 2013, 03:43:00 AM: Quote from: mishca09 on June 29, 2013, 07:41:18 PM
Site wouldn't load For like an hour and a half....said it was server connection problems.

That's odd as I cannot find a server error. Perhaps the server was completely offline for that time so nothing was being generated.

I'll check the service announcements as sometimes there are outages due to upgrades or maintenance.

Thanks for the heads-up.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on July 19, 2013, 05:14:30 AM: Its because your christ
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 19, 2013, 03:40:22 PM: Quote from: christ on July 19, 2013, 04:25:13 AM
Got a database error a couple of hours ago.

It went away.

The load was off the scale and I asked them (politely) to sort their poo out.

They must've.

I am still going to switch host at the end of our contract. Possibly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 20, 2013, 04:20:07 PM: My "unread topics/post" have disappeared and I'm not getting any more added over time.

Is it just me?

If it isn't, then I suppose no-one will see this post.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on July 20, 2013, 04:27:19 PM: Quote from: smokester on July 20, 2013, 04:20:07 PM
Is it just me?

I'm getting them.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on July 20, 2013, 04:59:06 PM: I get them...here's the link for it.

http://www.diasfora.co.uk/index.php?action=unread
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 20, 2013, 05:13:39 PM: It seems okay now, so I can only assume that either I broke my cookie (that'll learn me not to dunk it in hot tea), or I inadvertently clicked the "mark all as read" button.

The latter has happened before.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on July 21, 2013, 12:05:48 AM: Hehe, I was on a counter-strike (game) forum once and the favorite pasttime was to trick people into clicking ninja'd-links to goatse or to the logout link.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 21, 2013, 02:05:59 AM: very slow on loading any pictures.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 21, 2013, 05:27:52 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on July 21, 2013, 02:05:59 AM
very slow on loading any pictures.

We don't host images so that should be an external issue.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on July 21, 2013, 09:41:41 AM: Quote from: smokester on July 20, 2013, 05:13:39 PM
It seems okay now, so I can only assume that either I broke my cookie (that'll learn me not to dunk it in hot tea)

Yeah, tea... If you say so... ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: SACPOP on August 04, 2013, 11:34:31 AM: Site is realllly slow for me right now right now. I click, then wait ~20-30 seconds, then page loads.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 04, 2013, 12:04:07 PM: There was a server upgrade happening over the last couple of days. That's just finished so I'd assume it's bedding in.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: brickbatz on August 04, 2013, 12:43:14 PM: Works fine for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: SACPOP on August 04, 2013, 01:25:20 PM: Now it's back to normal. Just a 10 minute period of slooowness, I guess.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 04, 2013, 02:52:52 PM: Actually, I just witnessed it and tried another site on the server while it was slow. That too had a loading delay so there may be an issue with the upgrade.

I'll try and keep an eye on the server load etc.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on April 21, 2014, 07:48:43 PM: couldn't connect for about 20 mins maybe ( didn't keep count) the message was it could not connect to server or server was not responding
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 23, 2014, 05:33:04 AM: I was trying to keep an eye on things while I was away but the wifi was so temperamental that if I got an error, I couldn't tell whether it was site-side or my connection. It appears it may have been a bit of both.

I'll have a snoop around and see if something is borked.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 11, 2014, 02:39:05 PM: Server is a bit shaky at the moment. It should level out soon.

Sorry folks.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 18, 2014, 10:59:32 AM: There is ongoing server maintenance/upgrading by our host so please ignore anything out of the ordinary.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 18, 2014, 03:50:19 PM: I believe we are on, or are soon going to be on, brand new, sparkly hardware.

dweez will know, he can tell these things when he pees. So I've heard.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 18, 2014, 05:12:01 PM: You've heard me pee?!?!/!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 19, 2014, 03:49:00 AM: Whoops. I should learn to read things back.

I'm actually finding the page load time much slower? I know there will be some teething issues but I was hoping for improved performance somewhere down the line.

How's it loading for everyone else?

<edit> I can see the server and the load is spiking probably due to the ongoing upgrades. Ignore the page load time for now. </edit>
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 20, 2014, 07:09:25 AM: Completely new server now so we should be getting less errors very soon. However, I have only just changed the nameservers so there may be a glitch or 2 over the next 24hrs while that propagates.

Carry on.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 06, 2014, 05:01:51 AM: sorry for the interrupted service as there was server maintenance that was scheduled that I, in my busy few days, forgot to mention here and especially to the staff (sorry dweez and I did receive youe mail).

Looking at the service updates there have been a few issues following the work so at this point I cannot guarantee that we are 100% stable. But then, who is?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dandrummerman on August 06, 2014, 09:25:54 PM: Quote from: smokester on August 06, 2014, 05:01:51 AM
... I cannot guarantee that we are 100% stable. But then, who is?

Dweez isn't. That's for sure.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on August 06, 2014, 09:35:16 PM: (http://i.imgur.com/7JxpPQy.jpg)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 07, 2014, 06:56:49 AM: The last 2 posts have resulted in beer exiting from my nostrils.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on August 07, 2014, 07:01:25 PM: Aw damn, that's a waste of good beer.

:D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 08, 2014, 06:00:39 AM: Quote from: dweez on August 07, 2014, 07:01:25 PM
Aw damn, that's a waste of good beer.

:D

It's okay, it's cheap.

Quote from: christ on August 08, 2014, 01:48:06 AM
To be fair it shouldn't have been in his nostrils anyway. These Londoners feel all entertainment has to be ingested nasally.

So near South America, what do you expect...

I'll correct your auto-corrected spelling mistakes for you, and then hide the evidence. Just don't tell anyone.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on September 03, 2014, 04:03:20 PM: The site had some problems about 15 min ago. It seems everything's all right now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 03, 2014, 05:07:30 PM: Probably a load spike.

I was busy killin' necromancers so wouldn't have noticed.

Pesky necromancers...

Thanks XT.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 06, 2014, 03:37:04 PM: Wow! Lost the server completely there. Not a sausage.

I have been warned of some maintenance occurring but I thought it had all passed. The server may still be a little unstable.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 16, 2015, 03:27:46 PM: I apparently forgot to put money in the meter and they suspended our arse. It may be my fault but you'd think a reminder by the host would be nice.

No such luck but they did graciously fine me for late payment!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on November 16, 2015, 03:57:53 PM: Doh! That's so nice of them.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 17, 2015, 02:11:05 PM: Quote from: dweez on November 16, 2015, 03:57:53 PM
Doh! That's so nice of them.

They migrated their billing system a couple of months ago. Somehow, I don't think it was seamless.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 23, 2016, 02:43:15 AM: Anyone else getting the "connection problems" page? The server load looks ok so I'm not sure why that would be happening?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 23, 2016, 09:15:36 AM: just did.
yesterday was offline also
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 23, 2016, 10:07:01 AM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on February 23, 2016, 09:15:36 AM
just did.
yesterday was offline also

Watching the server load it keeps exceeding 10 which would cause the site to fail. Either they've oversold it or someone is hogging the resources.

I'll inform them that it's clipping.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 15, 2016, 02:15:30 PM: As some may have noticed, we've had very serious server issues.

Apparently things were so bad they had to install new drives and re-install from backup as things could not be recovered and the server, no matter what they tried, kept becoming unresponsive.

We're back now but I have no idea if we've lost anything.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on April 15, 2016, 08:22:56 PM: I'm glad we're back!! I was worried for a while today.

Quote from: smokester on April 15, 2016, 02:15:30 PM
...but I have no idea if we've lost anything.

We've lost a very important post about my cousin setting up a pool table in his office. :D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on April 15, 2016, 10:18:36 PM: I was wondering what was going on. I checked some of the old "hosting status" bookmarks I had but they ended up being pretty old (2011) and I guess we've moved since then.

xtopave, if only we knew someone who still new the story who could repost it. Hmmm.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on April 16, 2016, 12:48:02 AM: I lost my lucky lottery numbers i kept here ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 16, 2016, 04:50:10 AM: Here's the legend of events (for dweez if no-one else) and all things considered, I think we didn't do too bad. Mind you, isn't a RAID setup meant to avoid this kind of situation?

Quote

04-12-2016, 06:24 PM #1
Nasir

Maintenance -- Cedar.nocdirect.com [Completed]

Reseller server cedar.nocdirect.com has gone unresponsive all of a sudden, our data center admins are checking it. More updates to follow.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

04-12-2016, 08:04 PM #2
Nasir

Our data center admins are still working on the server, more updates to follow.

04-12-2016, 10:31 PM #3
Nasir

Please accept our since apologies, server is not booting due to drive issues, our admins are working hard to get it back online as soon as possible. More updates to follow.

04-12-2016, 10:46 PM #4
Nasir


Server is back online now but RAID array is rebuilding at 13%, it is an I/O intensive process so it may push the load to go occasionally high. We will continue to monitor the server and keep you updated here.

Thanks for your tremendous cooperation and patience.

04-13-2016, 12:02 AM #5
Vivek


RAID rebuild has completed 20% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 02:16 AM #6
Vivek

RAID rebuild has completed 64% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 02:55 AM #7
Vivek

5,190

RAID rebuild has completed 67% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 03:26 AM #8
Vivek

RAID rebuild has completed 72% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 04:03 AM #9
Vivek


RAID rebuild has completed 82% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 04:58 AM #10
Anoop

RAID rebuild has completed 91% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 06:09 AM #11
Vivek


RAID rebuild has completed 99% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 08:27 AM #12
Vlad


The rebuild got restarted and it is currently 34% complete. Updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 10:39 AM #13
Vlad


RAID rebuild has completed 66% successfully. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 01:54 PM #14
Vlad


The rebuild has completed but the raid array is still degraded. We've started an initialization process which should fix that. Updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 03:10 PM #15
Nasir

RAID initialization 17% completed. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 05:56 PM #16
Nasir

RAID initialization 53% completed. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 07:04 PM #17
Nasir

RAID initialization 67% completed. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 09:30 PM #18
-Nasir

RAID initialization was about to complete but server went unresponsive again. Our data center admins are checking it at this moment, we will post more details as soon as available.

Thanks for your patience.

04-13-2016, 10:17 PM #19
-Nasir


Our data center admins are still working on the server, more updates to follow.

04-13-2016, 11:06 PM #20
-Vivek


We are still working with our cage techs to bring the server back online. More updates will follow.

04-13-2016, 11:43 PM #21
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to bring the server back online. More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 12:24 AM #22
-Vivek

It is an update that the server hangs during OS boot and we are troubleshooting why it happens to get the server loaded as quickly as possible. More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 01:18 AM #23
-Vivek

We are still working on this server to bring it back online. More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 02:43 AM #24
-Vivek


We are still working with our cage techs to bring the server back online. More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 02:53 AM #25
-Vivek

One of the recently replaced drives of the server is failing the rebuild due to which the server is not booting. We have booted the server on the rescue mode and are trying to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest.

04-14-2016, 04:33 AM #26
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to bring the server back online. More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 05:32 AM #27
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to booted the server on the rescue mode and are trying to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. . More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 06:24 AM #28
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to booted the server on the rescue mode and are trying to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. . More updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 07:57 AM #29
-Vlad

We are still working on the server. Updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 08:17 AM #30
-Vlad

The server will have to be restored from backups. We are preparing a new server for that purpose. Updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 10:36 AM #31
-Vlad


The server is ready and we are working on starting the restore.

04-14-2016, 12:00 PM #32


The restore is currently in progress. Updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 01:31 PM #33
-Vlad

110GB of data have been restored. Updates will follow.

04-14-2016, 02:56 PM #34
-Jacob

The restore has reached 27% at this time. Thank you for your ongoing patience, and we'll continue to provide updates regarding this process.

04-14-2016, 05:12 PM #35
-Jacob


The restore has reached 57% at this time. Thank you for your ongoing patience, and we'll continue to provide updates regarding this process.

04-14-2016, 08:57 PM #36
-Jacob

The restore is over 90% at this time, and ongoing. Thank you for your ongoing patience, and we'll continue to provide updates regarding this process.

04-14-2016, 10:56 PM #37
-Vivek

The restore has completed successfully and we will now attempt to boot it into OS. Thank you for your ongoing patience, and we'll continue to provide updates regarding this process.

04-15-2016, 12:19 AM #38
-Vivek

We are working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 01:22 AM #39
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 02:22 AM #40
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 03:25 AM #41
-Vivek

We are still working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 04:22 AM #42
-Anoop

Our admins are still working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 05:21 AM #43
-Vivek

Our admins are still working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 06:17 AM #44
-Vivek


We are still working with our cage techs to restore the services on it and get it back up at earliest. More updates will follow.

04-15-2016, 08:36 AM #45
-Vlad

The restore has been completed and the server is back online.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on April 16, 2016, 01:32:43 PM: RAID is a way of configuring hard drives (hdd) so that in the case of a hdd failure data isn't lost and the server can still operate, albeit in a degraded state. Once the failed hdd is replaced, the RAID rebuilds that hdd with the data that was on the failed one.

Some RAID configurations allow for being able to lose more than one hdd and still be functional but for most of the common configs, if more than 1 hdd is lost, the whole array and all data is lost.

It sounds like they lost an hdd, replaced it with what they thought was a good hdd but the rebuild process kept failing. One of those failures cause the raid array data to become corrupted. Thus, after sorting out and replacing any of the bad hdds, they would have had to restore from backups.

Sounds like they did what they were supposed to but kept having bad luck (bad hdd, bad replacement hdd, corrupted array). All in all, it sounds like despite all the obstacles, they did a good and quick job of restoring back to the latest data they had.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 16, 2016, 04:04:07 PM: The biggest problem for me was that I run a few different email accounts through various domains, most of which are for professional use. I was really worried that during the downtime the mail would be lost, but thankfully that was not the case.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 16, 2016, 02:31:07 AM: Load averages are more than twice what they should be. I've alerted them but page loading will probably be shaky for a while.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: brickbatz on September 16, 2016, 05:09:06 AM: Page loading is fast for me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 16, 2016, 03:50:02 PM: Quote from: brickbatz on September 16, 2016, 05:09:06 AM
Page loading is fast for me.

Yes, I think they kicked the spammer or whoever it was hogging the resources.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 17, 2016, 03:15:08 PM: Quote from: christ on September 17, 2016, 01:10:11 PM
New hamster.

Is that in New England?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on September 17, 2016, 03:54:31 PM: I thought that was New Hamsterdam?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: xtopave on September 18, 2016, 11:58:07 AM: Quote from: dweez on September 17, 2016, 03:54:31 PM
I thought that was New Hamsterdam?

Nope. That's Rodent Island.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 18, 2016, 03:17:54 PM: Or even Vermint. But then we're back to New England.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 19, 2016, 03:08:29 PM: Quote from: christ on September 19, 2016, 01:38:24 AM
That's alright: I'm not going to help all y'all with technical solutions if you're going to not take me seriously.

*sulk*

The server is still not well so I'll take all the deity hand waving I can get. I promise to keep a straight face the next time you say something. Scouts honour.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on September 20, 2016, 11:31:31 AM: Quote from: christ on September 19, 2016, 04:08:06 PM
Fibber.

Well... I laughed when you said that so I suppose you're right.

Next time for sure.

Server seems ok now and the load averages are normal.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on November 15, 2016, 04:31:03 PM: I don't know how long the server was down for but my mail has been out for at least 3 hours.

Our host, JaguarPC, apparently like to sleep on the job.

Lucky there's people like me who know how to send support tickets, otherwise they may be down indefinitely.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on December 04, 2016, 12:36:41 AM: Yo, the site comes up 403 on my computer, so it's not just my phone.

I am able to access the forum by doing a google search for "diasfora index" but diasfora.co.uk comes up as 403.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 04, 2016, 02:40:09 PM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on December 04, 2016, 12:36:41 AM
Yo, the site comes up 403 on my computer, so it's not just my phone.

I am able to access the forum by doing a google search for "diasfora index" but diasfora.co.uk comes up as 403.

Are you still seeing it? I'm hoping a load spike knocked out some of the services and the problem was temporary.

I'll run the maintenance routines anyhow.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on December 04, 2016, 03:47:29 PM: I checked it earlier when 8ullfrog mentioned it and was getting the 403 as well. I meant to post but then got distracted. I always go directly to the "new posts" link so never noticed it before 8ully said something.

It's working fine for me now though.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 04, 2016, 05:10:51 PM: I complained to the hosting comp' a while back saying that the server spikes far too often indicating it might be oversold. They apologised and said they'd look into it.

It could be someone hogging the server unintentionally.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on December 04, 2016, 06:16:16 PM: http://imgur.com/UKyHEmO
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on December 05, 2016, 01:27:18 PM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on December 04, 2016, 06:16:16 PM
http://imgur.com/UKyHEmO

Does this mean you're still getting it?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 04, 2017, 12:11:29 PM: Quote from: christ on February 03, 2017, 02:09:06 AM
Got database error "server may be too busy" a couple of times this morning.

I think our server is a little oversold. I've suggested that to the host but they just throw back statistics at me.

Statistics are, quite magically, impossible to argue with.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 15, 2017, 01:10:02 PM: Major MySQL issue at the host's end, and is why we've had the error all day. Looks OKish now but if anyone gets any problems please report them here as I'm not completely convinced.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on February 15, 2017, 02:48:40 PM: I think they might have had to restore from backup. I'm positive I posted a reply to Bea's "I'm back" post in the "Last Person to Speak Wins" thread but it's not there now, nor in the Recycle Bin. It's possible I typed it out and just forgot to post it, but I don't believe so.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 15, 2017, 03:21:37 PM: Quote from: dweez on February 15, 2017, 02:48:40 PM
I think they might have had to restore from backup. I'm positive I posted a reply to Bea's "I'm back" post in the "Last Person to Speak Wins" thread but it's not there now, nor in the Recycle Bin. It's possible I typed it out and just forgot to post it, but I don't believe so.

Yes I believe I read that.

I haven't had a reply from them confirming what they did to correct things, they just initially advised me that MySQL was at fault. I suspect you're right and at least this conversation will explain any missing posts.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 15, 2017, 04:13:18 PM: This was posted by the host:

Quote
Maintenance -- Network Issue

We had a slight power disruption at our Atlanta DC today due to which some servers went down. We have managed to restart most but a few are still being worked as they went into auto FSCK (File System Check). These servers will be back online as soon as their Filesystem is brought into a consistent state.

Additionally, few of our shared/reseller/SDX servers using InnoDB MySQL engine have MySQL service issues, we are working on them to restore the service ASAP, rest of the services are fine on these servers.

Thanks for your patience and cooperation during this incident. We will continue to post more details in timely manner.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 16, 2017, 01:02:01 AM: you not sure Trump's keeping his eye on you
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 16, 2017, 03:13:49 AM: Quote from: christ on February 16, 2017, 01:59:44 AM
I think some of my posts have gone too.

(http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg70/goldshirt9/avatars/image002.gif) (http://s245.photobucket.com/user/goldshirt9/media/avatars/image002.gif.html)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on February 20, 2017, 12:34:00 PM: not available again earlier again
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on February 20, 2017, 03:41:01 PM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on February 20, 2017, 12:34:00 PM
not available again earlier again

I think the server is oversold. I have seen load spikes at around 250 when the load shouldn't go above 10. I'll moan to the host again for what it's worth.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 08, 2017, 03:16:16 PM: I just got a "server not found" error that went away after a refresh. Has anyone else seen that today?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on May 08, 2017, 05:45:30 PM: I haven't but I've only hit the site twice so far today.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 27, 2017, 08:04:51 AM: we back at last, was down all day yesterday 26/07/17, internal error or something
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 27, 2017, 12:23:16 PM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on July 27, 2017, 08:04:51 AM
we back at last, was down all day yesterday 26/07/17, internal error or something

There were some big server changes that I forgot to relay to dweez and the wider community. There was a glitch after it was complete and I had to prod the host to rectify things.

All good now and the site should be faster and more stable.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on July 27, 2017, 04:32:22 PM: I have this internal vision that you are a laid back professional most of the time, but when the host naffs with the site you just pick up a golf club quietly, and go for a little chat.

I also feel like they're a crowd of 14 year olds just bless'ed everything up and thinking they're awesome.

Or Best Buy employees.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 27, 2017, 05:47:38 PM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on July 27, 2017, 04:32:22 PM
I have this internal vision that you are a laid back professional most of the time, but when the host naffs with the site you just pick up a golf club quietly, and go for a little chat.

I also feel like they're a crowd of 14 year olds just bless'ed everything up and thinking they're awesome.

Or Best Buy employees.

I've found with nearly all the hosts that I've used that tech support is a case of the blind leading the blind. It's only when they call in the freelancers that things get done properly.

In all honesty our host isn't terrible especially after they sold out to a bigger, shinier company, and usually the initial ticket is enough for them to address and fix the issue. In the past, I would have had to repeat myself dozens of times - usually including what I think the problem and solution might be - and 4 or 5 tech support folk later they'd end up taking my advice, claiming it was their own idea, and still not properly implementing it.

It's at these times that the mashie niblick goes back in the bag in favour of a 1 wood.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on July 28, 2017, 08:16:06 AM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on July 27, 2017, 04:32:22 PM
I have this internal vision that you are a laid back professional most of the time, but when the host naffs with the site you just pick up a golf club quietly, and go for a little chat.
;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on July 28, 2017, 03:29:39 PM: For those that experienced the page loading time outs a short while ago, all I can say it bravo to the server upgrade..

Host duly prodded and pages loading again.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 15, 2017, 01:21:13 PM: Many apologies for the short break in service.

The reason for our downtime is that the Nominet gods decided that they, all of a sudden, didn't like the registrant's name.

I sent them such a sarcastic email that would have even made chris T wince and, remarkably, I got an incredibly polite reply that have me precise instructions to get us back and functioning.

So. here we are.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 15, 2017, 03:00:41 PM: Quote from: christ on August 15, 2017, 02:22:35 PM
I'm not sure I remember how to wince, to be honest.

I take it you haven't seen the comfy chair for some time?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: mishca09 on August 16, 2017, 09:35:57 PM: I thought the site,was gone forever , I was a little sad
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 18, 2017, 03:58:48 PM: Quote from: mishca09 on August 16, 2017, 09:35:57 PM
I thought the site,was gone forever , I was a little sad

Not gonna happen, at least, not by design.

I do wonder why Nominet have got heavy handed after so many years. Perhaps it's to do with online security matters.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on August 18, 2017, 10:22:23 PM: I was unable to log in for two days. I kept getting error messages.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 19, 2017, 08:49:55 AM: Quote from: 6pairsofshoes on August 18, 2017, 10:22:23 PM
I was unable to log in for two days. I kept getting error messages.

I think as Nominet suspended the domain for the update to the WHOIS, the records were duly changed and after re-activation it has to propagate again. This can take up to 72 hours I believe and would explain why some people could get back in while others had to wait.

As long as you're still here, Six, we're good.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 21, 2018, 02:56:22 PM: I know some have had some intermittent issues logging in and I am no exception. The server looks in good shape with medium and stable server loads, so it might be that I haven't done any maintenance on our site for months, if not years, and we have a little error somewhere.

This weekend I'll do some housekeeping and check the tables properly in an attempt to get us running smoothly again.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on March 21, 2018, 04:12:09 PM: I had intermittent problems. Today I got a forbidden message, but it was trying to log in on the last url info, so I cleared everything but the diasfora.co.uk and was able to get the home page & to log in as normal.

I don't know if that little tidbit helps w/your maintenance, but it does explain a little about my access problems. I think a few days ago, I tried this as well, but it did not work, so whatever you did in the interim helped.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on October 19, 2018, 09:31:24 AM: could be i have never noticed but site shows not secure on search bar
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 19, 2018, 12:00:17 PM: Same here. Although I don't feel insecure on the site. Funny that.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 19, 2018, 04:03:14 PM: Quote from: goldshirt*9 on October 19, 2018, 09:31:24 AM
could be i have never noticed but site shows not secure on search bar

If you access the site using https I believe only certain, 3rd party elements remain unsecure.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on October 19, 2018, 11:48:09 PM: fair enough
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 06, 2019, 12:46:14 PM: The server is shocking at the moment and I have threatened to jump ship with the host. They are apologetic and are trying to get this server stable so we'll hang on a little longer.

The hosting package is up for renewal on the 14th of this month and if we are still getting the unacceptable server errors at that time, I think we should migrate elsewhere. Lets hope that we don't lose anyone in an alternate dimension like we did the last time we migrated.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on October 06, 2019, 06:43:23 PM: Internal Server Error.

Wow, they're really stepping up the customer service to try and keep you as a customer.

It's like they're running the thing on an eMachine.

this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EOne
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 07, 2019, 10:35:16 AM: I don't know what happened to this company but since it was taken over by JaguarPC all that seemed to improve was their ability to raise hosting costs. Everything else went south.

They have offered to migrate us already so I might suggest they do that sooner rather than later.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 07, 2019, 06:16:34 PM: Thanks for your help. I frequently can't get into the site, so it would be great to have that resolved. Let's hope this migration will fix it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on October 07, 2019, 07:31:48 PM: I accidentally charged my phone overnight. I've been keeping it at 10% for a WEEK waiting on the new charger because Samsung said I needed to buy one with "adaptive fast charging".

I'm still smarter than the hosting company here. Holy poo. If you're wanting a client to renew, you roll out the red carpet. This feels like an intentional "Yeah, we suck. golly off out of our model village!"

I've got all sorts of goofy poo messages. Good old SMF, that ISE, a couple times I got 403's.

It's like my dealings with Samsung. Treat the customer like poo so they buy something more expensive.

Six, I posted a thing about stargate but the server ate it. You were right, Jack got snaked, but the Tok'ra fixed it before it became a problem. Their name means "Against Ra", the baddie who got blown up in the movie "STARGATE". So like, Jack should charge them royalties, since he killed the guy. Even dropped a damn fine one liner. "Give my regards to King Tut, bottom". His Flat top is also legendary. RDA admitted he couldn't pull it off.

I forgot the transport rings were in the movie, dang. They even have that fantastic sound effect "gigishigur"
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 08, 2019, 07:33:55 AM: I've asked to migrate as I figure is couldn't get any worse, right?

No one quote me.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 09, 2019, 01:15:17 AM: Here's a couple of excerpts from the latest support ticket:

Quote
Thank you for your patience. The track record for this server has been terrible as of late, there is no denying that. After a lengthy investigation we determined a number of drives in our raid array do have errors and thus we have started the planning to replace the drives.

If you and your clients can stick it out for just a bit longer we will get this matter resolved once and for all.

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Regards,

And the latest one:

Quote
At this time we have just replaced another one of the faulty drives and the raid array is now in rebuild mode. We realize this situation is not pleasant but we are making every effort to ensure that this process goes as smoothly as possible.

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.
Regards,

I am assuming that the lengthy outage last night was to do with the rebuild.

I would be inclined to see if things improve but checking the server status just now the load is at nearly 9. Somewhere above 10 we bounce out so I think I'll still request a migration.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 09, 2019, 01:31:21 AM: Quote from: christ on October 09, 2019, 01:18:49 AM
I'm sure that it will go to 11.

It does and much higher. However, whether this site loads when at that level is hit-or-miss.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on October 09, 2019, 01:46:17 AM: That "regards" reminds me a lot of the robot lady who thanks you for your patience when you're on hold.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 10, 2019, 06:11:33 AM: As yesterday the server load never settled and at one point was 391.43 (of course we weren't loading at that) and the fact that it's still at 9.7 which delays post time by an irritating amount, I have decided to jump ship altogether. I'll rebuild our site on a new host and put us into maintenance mode just before the hop, so don't be alarmed or surprised if you see this site offline.

Once you see the site out of maintenance mode, you'll know the DNS changes have fully propagated.

All this will happen sometime over the weekend.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 10, 2019, 11:40:13 PM: Thanks for going through the trouble to do that.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on October 10, 2019, 11:43:50 PM: I've not noticed any problems since, maybe they were nest kicking?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 11, 2019, 02:49:58 AM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on October 10, 2019, 11:43:50 PM
I've not noticed any problems since, maybe they were nest kicking?

Oddly, every time I log on the server is down and I have to kick them to reboot it - or terminate whatever is spiking the load.

New host has also started like an idiot so I'm wondering if it's time for us all to jump universe to a place where people are at least semi-professional. I know most of you probably already came from there, but some of us lesser mortals would like a holiday from all the incompetency around us.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 13, 2019, 04:59:34 AM: Just archiving the site for the move and I noticed there was a file in the queue that was 1.3gb. There's nothing to do with the site structure anywhere near that size so I looked further into thinking maybe we'd been hacked or something and this was deposited.

We hadn't and this was just a simple server file - any ideas what it might be?

Spoiler (hover to show)
It was a damn "error log"! I wonder what that might be hosting people?..
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 14, 2019, 06:34:47 AM: Sorry about your missing post, 8ully, but the site wasn't ready at that point.

It's been a nightmare to get this over to another server due to all the little alterations I've made over the years. It seemed to do something to the structure of the site whereby it couldn't be seen by the new server. I've had to update the version in a sandbox, reinstall most of the mods and then export this cleaner copy and updated DB over to this host.

So we are here now and it's way more stable than that other pile of junk. Take note though, not all the mods would install and things might be a bit out of place. I'll work on getting us back to full spec as and when I have time.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on October 14, 2019, 07:30:27 AM: It's cool, I got all three of the error messages again in the meantime.

I still say that error log was load bearing. :P

Also, considering I can't say it with money, thank you for keeping this place up, it's a great resource to me, even when it's just venting when dinner doesn't go well, it's still a place I can do that. And it is appreciated.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 14, 2019, 09:16:33 AM: And we're back.

Thanks, smokes!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 14, 2019, 09:37:55 AM: poo! How fast is this host!!

I only have to think it and it's posted.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 29, 2019, 11:34:53 AM: To keep you all in the loop I should explain that while this new host is very fast and has excellent hardware to support our package, it is a little expensive so I made the decision to run a VPS instead where I will host my other sites (mostly static) and bounce this site over there too.

It will mean another little disruption and short break in service, but the upside is we will be the only real functioning dynamic site on the server which will make us bulletproof and faster than you can imagine.

There will also be other goodies for you all to benefit from.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on October 29, 2019, 11:40:55 AM: Excellent. And thanks for having this place for all us to just sit and relax in. Let me know if you'd take some compensation to help out (and how best to get it to you).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 29, 2019, 11:50:06 AM: Quote from: dweez on October 29, 2019, 11:40:55 AM
Excellent. And thanks for having this place for all us to just sit and relax in. Let me know if you'd take some compensation to help out (and how best to get it to you).

Thanks for that but I'm now even using Cyberpanel which is an Open Source web host panel as I'm sure you know that CPanel started charging a packet to use it. This brings our hosting fees down to a few dollars a year and less if other people want me to host sites for them. Anywho, I now put it through as a business expense but thanks again for the offer.

You have my little boy to thank for this as he even offered to give me a VPS on his dedicated server (at £15 a year - he isn't that stupid). But I decided to get my own VPS so that I could keep it tidy and then just lean on the littlun to explain to me how it all works.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 29, 2019, 12:16:18 PM: Thank you, smokes, for the work you devote to keeping this site going. I echo dweez's offer of support in the case that the current inexpensive means goes kaput. It's great that you can rely on your son for help with this.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on March 25, 2020, 08:27:28 AM: I am finally confident enough with my VPS and the control panel I've installed to consider moving us over once and for all. I can then get rid of our current host which, while being incredibly fast and stable, is expensive by normal standards.

If I self impose a break from work I'll try and get us over in the next few days and, as usual, you can expect a short break in service if not a few things being odd for a while (your timezone etc).

I'll keep you all posted.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on March 25, 2020, 09:56:24 AM: You forgot the Mr. Arnold warning!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on March 25, 2020, 11:44:09 AM: Quote from: smokester on March 25, 2020, 08:27:28 AM
I am finally confident enough with my VPS and the control panel I've installed to consider moving us over once and for all. I can then get rid of our current host which, while being incredibly fast and stable, is expensive by normal standards.

If I self impose a break from work I'll try and get us over in the next few days and, as usual, you can expect a short break in service if not a few things being odd for a while (your timezone etc).

I'll keep you all posted.

Thanks, in advance, for all that you do to keep this place up and running.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 29, 2020, 06:12:56 AM: We have a little persistent problem here which is due to SMF not coping with newer versions of PHP very well. It doesn't hurt much but it creates dozens of entries to the error log every time a page is loaded. This in turn bloats and then it becomes an issue.

I can't fix it without disabling the spoiler tag of all things so don't be alarmed if that disappears temporarily. Once it's fixed I'll bounce us over to the new space but I'll put us into maintenance mode beforehand. Once that happens you'll know when we have been fully propagated as we'll be out of the maintenance mode on the new server.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on April 29, 2020, 04:00:01 PM: I like the new news.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on April 29, 2020, 11:54:36 PM: Thank you for your efforts on our behalf.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on April 30, 2020, 03:17:20 AM: Quote from: christ on April 30, 2020, 01:06:06 AM
.... changed to a host ...

It's the boy's work (he's great at tippy tappying with command line stuff, but English skills ...).

Anywho, this is my VPS we are now on and it works great I think. Let me know of any glitches that may crop up.

Now that we are here I plan to get some other things up and running that will help us all. Stay tuned.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on May 02, 2020, 07:46:03 AM: 6 says she's getting a 404 when trying to access the site.

I feel bad because I wasn't on the computer as much, and she emailed me like two days ago.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 02, 2020, 07:57:54 AM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on May 02, 2020, 07:46:03 AM
6 says she's getting a 404 when trying to access the site.

I feel bad because I wasn't on the computer as much, and she emailed me like two days ago.

There was a short time for the propagation to complete (which was 2 days ago) although she would have been seeing either the old or the new site during that time. I have checked and we can be seen from everywhere so my guess is she needs to clear her cache and try again. She could check from her phone or another browser that hasn't visited the site before and see if she can see us. She should also try the secure address (https:// ...) as I am playing with the redirects to make it automagically load the SSL address but it's problematic without CPanel.

I'll get one of the boy's techie people over your side of the pond to ping us and see if there's anything spooky going on.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on May 02, 2020, 08:33:02 AM: She's in Northern California, I'm in southern, but I'd guess it's a cache thing. I've been hit by those.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 02, 2020, 08:45:46 AM: It's possible that her ISP has cached the nameservers to speed things up a bit and those are no longer valid. It's a long shot but if she can't clear it herself, that might come into play.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 02, 2020, 09:11:33 AM: Looking at the access logs:

six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:07:53:49 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:08:07:05 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:08 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:27 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:27 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:54 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:21:06:54 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [30/Apr/2020:23:05:28 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [01/May/2020:17:32:01 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [01/May/2020:22:55:57 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [01/May/2020:22:55:57 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:01:11:33 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:01:11:33 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:02:20:46 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:07:08:12 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:08:18:43 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"
six's ip - - [02/May/2020:08:18:43 +0200] "" 200 - "-" "-"

She's getting a successful 200 response every time.

Something's fishy. Maybe she should buy a PC ...

That's just for you, christ.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on May 02, 2020, 09:54:36 AM: Thanks for the concern. I've been able to see the site for a couple of days. I have been busy with RL tasks so I haven't been on here much.

The site is positively zippy since the transfer, so thanks for all your efforts, smokes.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 02, 2020, 10:15:30 AM: Quote from: 6pairsofshoes on May 02, 2020, 09:54:36 AM
Thanks for the concern. I've been able to see the site for a couple of days. I have been busy with RL tasks so I haven't been on here much.

The site is positively zippy since the transfer, so thanks for all your efforts, smokes.

Aha! Great to see you here and that the site is firing well for you.

I should point out that as I now control the server, I do have to reboot it or some of the services from time to time. I usually check that we are clear here first, but in the unlikely event of bad timing and you do see a server failure, it should resolve in a few minutes.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 02, 2020, 03:42:03 PM: Quote from: christ on May 02, 2020, 01:56:56 PM
*slap*

Ouch! I've been smited.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 08, 2020, 08:46:03 AM: I hadn't noticed that the invite system had disappeared after the updates. It was probably incompatible so I have also updated that. It should be visible in the menu bar to everyone so bump me if it isn't.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 08, 2020, 09:01:09 AM: Quote from: christ on May 08, 2020, 08:49:25 AM
"invitation".

I was low on ink.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 16, 2020, 03:30:42 PM: Some issues being reported after converting the database and I wondered how far reaching they are? I personally don't have any issues although once logged out I do not see the recent posts as 6 doesn't. I thought that might have something to do with guest permissions but there does not appear to be anything I can tweak via SMF, and editing things manually is a bit hit and miss in that particualr case so I think it's worth living with it.

I can always reload the database before the chinese character issue was fixed if we have too many other glitches that spawn.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 17, 2020, 12:21:21 PM: Quote from: christ on June 17, 2020, 01:32:46 AM
I seem to have lost all my posts.

Edit 1: -- and now I have one.

Edit 2: OK - Panic over, it's this one.

Hey, any time you want some stock I can hook you up. I believe you once afforded me such a favour.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 18, 2020, 03:30:49 PM: Goldie cannot see anything when logged in and I briefly logged in the the gamekeeper account which is essentially a dummy account, and I can see what he means as no posts at all are visible.

I am going to research a solution quickly but if nothing comes up I am going to reload the database before the chinese character fix. I'll warn you beforehand if you want to re-up any posts you've added since then.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 18, 2020, 04:28:11 PM: As goldie and at least one other account cannot see threads, I'll have to assume there are many more as many members no longer log in. However, we really have a bit of a problem now as the only working database archive I have is from the end of April.

I think for what it's worth I'll try and get this DB working, but if not I really have to reload the April one as we can't leave goldie out in the cold.

I'll ask some of the big boys over on SMF and see if this error has some history to work from.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 18, 2020, 05:23:52 PM: Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you test, smokester.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 19, 2020, 04:17:36 PM: Quote from: christ on June 19, 2020, 01:49:59 AM
Thanks. I'll go and check my backup.

The backup we grabbed before converting the DB was currupted for some unknown reason. Perhaps it's worth you checking yours.

I'm going to endeavour to fix this over the weekend although I have to work for most of it. If there is no joy them we'll all be subject to another time warp.

I suggest you memorise the lottery numbers now.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 19, 2020, 04:23:31 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 18, 2020, 05:23:52 PM
Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you test, smokester.

Nearly missed this.

It's a tough one to figure out. My hunch is that it is to do with a mod I installed some time ago that stops a PHP error. This is due to SMF finding it hard to handle anything from 7.2 upwards. I can't easily uninstall it as it was manually coded in because of version mismatches.

I'll sandbox an archive and see if I can iron things out and them copy it back.

If you log into the gamekeeper account you'll see goldie's problem.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 19, 2020, 07:47:31 PM: Ah, I see now. Using the F12 Developer Tools, the code isn't even getting rendered for the Post Subjects (on this page or even on the individual posts of a thread.

Like you, I never log out so did notice anything was a miss. I'm sure that bit of info is probably crucial (fine if already logged in, problem occurs for new users...I wonder if it's a file permission issue).

Here's a screenshot.
(https://imghost.diasfora.co.uk/albums/dweez-s-Photos/2020-06-19-21_36_42-Diasfora_issue.png)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on June 20, 2020, 03:15:09 AM: I get the question marks in the bar, but that's stupidly minor, took a shot of it, it's in the gallery. I still get topic titles.

I'll logout, then in, see if anything exciting happens.

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Nothing exciting happened. I can still see subjects.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 20, 2020, 03:28:53 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 19, 2020, 07:47:31 PM
Ah, I see now. Using the F12 Developer Tools, the code isn't even getting rendered for the Post Subjects (on this page or even on the individual posts of a thread.

Like you, I never log out so did notice anything was a miss. I'm sure that bit of info is probably crucial (fine if already logged in, problem occurs for new users...I wonder if it's a file permission issue).

That helps and it looks like a similar problem to the one that 6 noticed. I am going to try a couple of things tomorrow as I finally have a day that I am forbidden to work ( it's father's day here). Hopefully something will give.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2020, 07:18:46 AM: Ok, the young-un and I have managed to get version of the database from yesterday and getting it fully working - including fixing the little error that 6 reported. The problem is it required uninstalling all the mods and some other stuff so we are going to try and recreate the process without doing that.

Fingers crossed we'll be back to normal soon.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2020, 09:01:49 AM: Think it's ok now and sorry 6 for losing your last post.

Hopefully goldie will confirm soon.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on June 21, 2020, 12:09:20 PM: Looks good to me with a quick login from a Private Browsing Chrome browser.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2020, 12:22:43 PM: Quote from: dweez on June 21, 2020, 12:09:20 PM
Looks good to me with a quick login from a Private Browsing Chrome browser.

It was actually a combination of a few things but, in truth, when the boy read your post about file permissions (which, in part, it certainly was) it all fell into place for him.

The DB was also in quite bad shape and couldn't be downloaded/archived. It has now been rebuilt and the boy set a script up to archive it daily - eventually to his drives to save on space.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on June 21, 2020, 12:25:31 PM: I just posted, Thanks.

So no problem.

I'm happy to see that the logged out page is back to normal. Thanks for putting in the time to fix it and happy Father's day. I hope you had some fun.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 21, 2020, 04:45:55 PM: Thanks, six, today was almost work free (just called out for half an hour).

Had fun too as I was bought a magnificent Thai dinner and a bottle of Pouilly Fumé. That is about all I can ask for in these mad times.

Site is breathing well by the looks of it.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on June 22, 2020, 11:32:06 AM: Quote from: smokester on June 21, 2020, 09:01:49 AM
Think it's ok now and sorry 6 for losing your last post.

Hopefully goldie will confirm soon.

Yipee all ok now :) :)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on June 22, 2020, 11:53:31 AM: Quote from: christ on June 22, 2020, 12:57:17 AM
About time too. I was wondering what we paid you for.

(Well done, and thanks!)

On the first part: any chance of a pay rise. I was thinking double the current rate?

On the second part: my 17 year old with multiple terminal windows and lots of tippy tappying really should take the credit. I'm more the "ideas" man nowadays.

Quote from: goldshirt*9 on June 22, 2020, 11:32:06 AM
Yipee all ok now :) :)

Phew! I thought we'd lost you.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on August 15, 2021, 10:09:42 AM: Certs bent.

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The certificate for this site is not valid.

Because this connection is not secure, information (such as passwords or credit cards) will not be securely sent to this site and may be intercepted or seen by others.

We suggest you don't enter personal information into this site or avoid using this site.

Had to bypass a browser block to get through.

I get the same message when I log into my router.

Additional message:
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Your connection isn't private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from www.diasfora.co.uk (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards).
NET::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on August 15, 2021, 12:55:31 PM: Cert looks fine on my end. What browser and version are you running?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on August 15, 2021, 02:38:45 PM: No longer getting the message.

Could not connect when I was out on my phone, and 6 emailed me saying her browser won't let her in.

I'm using edge 92.0.902.67 (Official build) (64-bit), and apparently there is an update available.

Chrome
Version 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (64-bit) got in smoothly
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on August 15, 2021, 03:15:39 PM: Browsers have been doing a lot lately to tighten up on SSL/HTTPS certificates. It might have been something like that and the update resolved it. Secured communications are very sensitive and any number of things can cause issues (system time being off a little, not being able to check the cert revocation list to validate a good cert, etc).

Glad it resolved for you. It is odd that both you and 6 were experiencing issues at around the same time though. Maybe smokester or TNG were doing some system maintenance at the time (though smokester would normally give a heads up).
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on August 15, 2021, 03:16:15 PM: "Let's Encrypt" SSL expired and for some reason newly generated ones wouldn't stick. TNG did this one manually but after the VPS reboot the issue seems to be resolved.

TNG can be quite useful sometimes.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on August 15, 2021, 04:02:31 PM: Thanks for the quick fix. I tried several times and google said something like the characters that the site sent back were indecipherable. So something was going on related to the security certificate expiring.

Running Chrome:
Version 92.0.4515.131 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 13, 2021, 08:11:14 AM: I'm about to upgrade our VPS so there might be a glitch in the service.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on October 13, 2021, 08:44:18 AM: (https://media1.giphy.com/media/xT9DPr4VjeCgeiLoMo/giphy.gif?cid=790b76113704c670c833249bf704a9a5feb82267f5e283b1&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on October 13, 2021, 08:56:20 AM: Hey, it's all done and we have double the storage.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on October 13, 2021, 10:08:01 PM: Thanks, smokes!
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 23, 2023, 03:18:52 AM: I got a 404 this morning and had to reboot the VPS to back in here. None of my other sites were failing so it was a bit weird. Anyone else get that 404?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: dweez on January 23, 2023, 06:19:14 AM: This is the first time I've been on today and I got right in. Got to the site fine late last night too.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: goldshirt*9 on January 23, 2023, 10:02:36 AM: ok for me also.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on January 24, 2023, 02:26:44 AM: Site is working A-OK for me.

One funny thing, my browser renamed the site to PRIVACY_ERROR during the https kerfluffle and it's still named that in my bookmarks.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on January 24, 2023, 11:21:27 AM: Ain't broke, don't fix it. Thanks for being so attentive.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on January 24, 2023, 02:01:09 PM: It was a little bit broke, but only us 2 noticed.

He's right, you know.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 06, 2023, 04:57:16 AM: Sorry, I did a booboo and issued an SSL cert for site when I shouldn't have.

My bad.

Smacky bum time ...
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 8ullfrog on May 06, 2023, 06:06:41 AM: It made me hate CloudFart all the more. Thank you for settling it. I like to imagine you grabbing a random cloudflare employee and giving them a stone cold stunner.

Once the ref counted out the clock, the site rose, triumphant.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: smokester on May 06, 2023, 06:15:50 AM: Quote from: 8ullfrog on May 06, 2023, 06:06:41 AM
It made me hate CloudFart all the more. Thank you for settling it. I like to imagine you grabbing a random cloudflare employee and giving them a stone cold stunner.

Once the ref counted out the clock, the site rose, triumphant.

It's totally on me as I was issuing some SSL (let's encrypt) for a couple of other domains and had brain glitch and issued one for here - which I no longer have to do.

Had a lot on my mind lately so I'm blaming that.

Won't happen again. Promise.

I wonder if there's a way to make that ^ last sentence unquotable?
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: 6pairsofshoes on May 06, 2023, 10:52:36 AM: I couldn't get in for a couple days. Sent an email to 8ully but probably better if I could contact you directly.
Title: Re: Any and all site related problems
Post by: Beatrix on May 06, 2023, 07:04:54 PM: That happened to me too. I couldn’t log in about two days ago when I last tried.