Bad gateway errors on the whole forum for 5-10 minutes (not sure how many exactly).
The time the error occurred as close to the second as possible: 11:40 UTC (~15 mins ago)
The browser you use: chrome
The URL of the page you were accessing: various threads including this one
please let us know what exactly you were doing that triggered the error: just browsing, no action
Bad gateway errors on the whole forum for 5-10 minutes (not sure how many exactly).
The time the error occurred as close to the second as possible: 11:40 UTC (~15 mins ago)
The browser you use: chrome
The URL of the page you were accessing: various threads including this one
please let us know what exactly you were doing that triggered the error: just browsing, no action
11:43 UTC here.
Browser and URL doesn't matter.
21:27 UTC again, short duration of 502 for a couple of minutes.
I wish the admin would change the error message to something like:
"Routine Outage - Back within a couple of minutes"
The current error message throws me every time.
Our favorite regular 21:45 UTC outage is here again.
Our favorite regular 21:45 UTC outage is here again.
21:35 UTC today, to make It a bit more exiting I guess....
Our favorite regular 21:45 UTC outage is here again.
This should be the error message
I forgot (to copy) and lost a long post
I just got the message. Though this time I was able to get in.
<< ez24: Just hit "back" in the browser to retrieve the text of the message.
Got the error right now, 15:20 UTC. Server becoming slow responding in the last hour.
Just got the error when tried to send this message too.
There was an incident of server overload, a script was hammering MySQL. I don't have time to look into it right now unfortunately, my office took a lightning strike that fed into an Ethernet cable... lots of dead Ethernet gear and NICs.
Correction The server was under a DDoS attack by a cluster of servers trying to overload the website by flooding posts to the search input. The attack has been blocked.
Server seems to be overloaded and under ddos attack quite regularly. Every day. Just got the famous 21:45UTC gateway error again.
Whilst returning to the main page today at 10:29 AEDT or 23:29 GMT I received a 502 bad gateway message, it only lasted for a minute or so then after a refresh returned to normal, it might have just been a backup or restart.
Been a bit flakey for the last couple of days. Maybe Batteroo's YouTube dislike campaign extends to ddos
21:38 GMT: 502 bad gateway.
It seems to go dead for about 5 minutes almost every evening around 21:30 GMT. Is it a windows server on a daily reboot or is the a backup that runs which takes the site off line? Not complaining, just curious.
I apologize for the outage that occurred during Dave's Live Stream just now. This server came under heavy DDoS attack from a range of addresses just as Dave started to attempt to perform the draw. This was not an inrush of viewers, I had to block 50 IP addresses, most running at over 100 requests/sec, a few of them over 200/sec, and one at over 1000/sec.
173.167.206.137 was the heavy hitter at 1000/sec.
We are behind CloudFlare which is supposed to block this kind of thing, but it just proxied it all through... what a Joke.
A subset of Comcast. Probably one of the business accounts. I'm sure a complaint to Comcast will bring swift results.
Yep, a static Comcast Business IP address.
Comcast has been contacted. There is clearly a remote viewer sitting on that IP, looks very old and unmaintained, likely compromised.
Just a notice to everyone
There will be a short database outage in a few minutes so I can change a few settings in preparation of the server move.
This does not mean the new server's are ready, I simply need to make a change so I can keep them in sync during the testing phase.
Edit: Done
At the time of this reply, I am getting a blank page with /forum/index.php containing URLs. I've tried a few web browsers and wget is downloading a zero sized file.
I had to navigate to this topic using a link to another then used search.