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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #420 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." 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.
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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #421 on: May 29, 2013, 08:44:03 PM »
When I click show new replies your posts I get a database error message...

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #422 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.

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #423 on: May 30, 2013, 07:25:34 AM »
Ditto ^

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #424 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.
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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #425 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.
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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #426 on: May 30, 2013, 04:26:11 PM »
Thank you smokester! Looks to be working fine now.


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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #427 on: May 30, 2013, 05:05:04 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:

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #428 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.

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #429 on: May 30, 2013, 05:56:33 PM »
I got a couple errors... just needed a refresh..

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #430 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.
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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #431 on: May 30, 2013, 09:44:27 PM »
I'm getting them now, too, but refresh seems to fix it most of the time.

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #432 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.

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #433 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.

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Re: Any and all site related problems
« Reply #434 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"?..
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