Site goes down for hours

[Chad C Mulligan]

Beeen trying to reply to Toohp for a while now. System tells me Toohp does not exist which is probably news to his nearest and dearest.

[Nuts]

Yes, a glitch that one. Always worth asking someone directly, it can be a while before one of us sees such comments (if at all):
memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=4189

[GPSGuided]

Site "died" again today b/n some time in late morning and 7pm in the evening.

[Mountain Rocket]

^ Had the same problem.

[Tortoise]

So did everybody, going by the active topics times.

Thanks for the hard work you must have been doing behind the scenes, administrative folks

[Hallu]

The site was dead yesterday evening, from 9 pm till I don't know when, went to bed a midnight, it was still down.

[GPSGuided]

The site was dead yesterday evening, from 9 pm till I don't know when, went to bed a midnight, it was still down.

Checking on a forum should not be the last thing one does before shut lids. Yet again...

[Hallu]

The forum was dead yesterday evening too

[GPSGuided]

The forum was dead yesterday evening too

This server backend problem seemed to be without resolution. Glad I am not tasked to fix it. Must be a tough cookie.

[johnw]

The forum was dead yesterday evening too

This server backend problem seemed to be without resolution. Glad I am not tasked to fix it. Must be a tough cookie.

Yes, lately the site seems to have been down frequently in the evenings for hours on end...

[wildwalks]

Sorry Guys -- I am working on this issue still. We have two unrelated issue causing the outages. One is due to a problem with the network management system and the other is regular 'DOS' attacks. I think I have resolved (as best I can) the DOS issues and hope to migrate to the new sever over the weekend to solve the other (still a few issues with migration - but very close now).

So hopefully next week - if not the week after we will be humming along well soon.

Matt

[wayno]

awesome news matt... will be well worth the wait... thanks for all the dedication

[GPSGuided]

Good luck Matt. We should all schedule some long walks that's outside of smartphone signal range over the weekend...

[neilmny]

Thanks Matt you efforts are appreciated.

[Mountain Rocket]

Good luck with the maintenance later tonight Matt

[wildwalks]

Thanks guys

[wildwalks]

Okay -- fingers crossed that the issue is now solved. The website is much faster now -- hopefully it stays up and running.

thanks

Matt

[GPSGuided]

Phoenix rising...

[neilmny]

Well done Matt thanks

[Mountain Rocket]

I suppose I am not the only one who experienced the site go down last night around midnight?

[Strider]

No me too

[icefest]

I suppose I am not the only one who experienced the site go down last night around midnight?

It was from just before midnight until 6:45 ish for me.

[GPSGuided]

I suppose I am not the only one who experienced the site go down last night around midnight?

It was from just before midnight until 6:45 ish for me.

Did you do minutely checks?

[Onestepmore]

He's studying

AKA 'Needs frequent distractions'

[icefest]

Hmm, it could have been 6:46..

(Just Joking)

[dannnnn]

thanks for getting the site back up!! i appreciate your hard work

[wildwalks]

Yep. Sorry guys. It was a DOS Attack and I slept through the outage alert. The outages of the past seems to have gone now. But DOS attacks are hard to deal with. Will get there

Matt

[GPSGuided]

Please don't apologise Matt! It's not reasonable for these matters to affect your rest time. That's the quickest way to a burn out. But just fix it before breakfast.

[north-north-west]

What's a DOS attack?

[GPSGuided]

Denial of Service attack. Massive external data requests that aim to flood the server's resources and bring it down.