Things are a bit sketchy at the moment. Gateway time outs, (general) server errors, the lot.
Yeah, I was getting some of that lately, myself. Will see if we can’t get to the bottom of it.
It’s ok again now. But for a while when it more or less worked I could get the index page but getting threads and posts, let alone posting or editing, was not possible. For a while nothing would work.
That’s way worse than I had. I agree it’s better today, but it’s still too balky for my liking. I thought maybe it was just issues on my end until you spoke up.
I was encountering server errors this morning as well.
It’s been all week for me, but unlike Mr.Gumby at least I could get in.
I agree it’s better today
It was better when I made the previous post, around the time I posted the thread and for about a hour after it was actually the worst it has been for a long time, to the point of not working at all for about 30 minutes.
Thanks, very useful.
Anyone else? I’d like the input while we try to correct this.
Experienced the same thing yesterday; pages took forever to load or would not load at all. Seems better this morning so far.
I’ve seen some slow loading, nothing worse.
Are there any server limitations the forum is running up against (bandwidth, CPU usage, etc.)? Or other applications on the server taking extensive CPU/memory? I don’t know where/how this forum is hosted. It’s also tough to diagnose server issues without access to the server.
Unless you’re volunteering your services, the first thing we’ll probably try is to have Dale get in consultation with the server, Dreamhost. Chiffboard was recently updated to the latest form of phpBB, which among other things was supposed to remedy the slow loads and timeouts.
It’s better now, but I’m still getting the occasional slow load, and this post is one of 'em. Even had a timeout during submission. Frustrating, considering what one would expect from an upgrade, and with things clipping along so nicely before this.
It just went a bit dodgy on me as well a few minutes ago (a few very slow loads and one gateway time out). Seems to happen when I am posting or editing posts.
I’ll add my name to the list. Problems logging in yesterday and had a PM go completely astray.
Bob
Getting in touch with the Dreamhost is definitely the best option. They should be able to answer questions about server load and memory usage and whatnot. I’m happy to help if needed, but Dreamhost should be able to give an idea of what’s going on. A lot of it depends on what kind of hosting the forum uses.
It’s playing up again isn’t it?
Not at the moment, for me.
It was getting very slow for me for a while and there was a server error that made the forums unreachable for a while (half an hour-ish). Seems ok now but it appeared to be deteriorating over the past few days.
Edit/Add:
This is what I got just noiw (17/11, around 10 Irish time). Same I got on occasion during the past few days:
And again for the past five minuntes or so (@14h Irish time):
General Error
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]Connection timed out [2002]
An sql error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact an administrator if this problem persists.