This afternoon's Outage (1300 GMT)

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The forum experienced an outage around 6:30 AM EST, causing issues with posting, viewing online members, and accessing private messages. Users reported that they could still browse the forums but were frustrated by the inability to interact. One user suggested a potential server error related to file loading, while another noted that restarting the server resolved the issue. Concerns were raised about the absence of a user named Greg, and the outage led to withdrawal symptoms for some users. Overall, the incident highlighted the challenges of forum accessibility during peak usage times.
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Anyone have any idea what caused the problems with the forums this afternoon? Just out of curiousity.

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Ah... so it wasn't just me!
 
Doc Al said:
Ah... so it wasn't just me!

Nope, I couldn't post or view online members or my PM's; I could however, browse the forums. I wander if someone tripped over a lead somewhere :rolleyes: ?

~H
 
I was going to blame W's computer again, but the problem was still there when I got to work. If I understood the error message properly (which I probably didn't), there was a failure to load some of the files.
 
No idea, but it does answer the question of why nobody was responding to Schrodinger's Cat's PMs. :biggrin:
 
Well, no one is certain that he actually sent them. :rolleyes:
 
Danger said:
Well, no one is certain that he actually sent them. :rolleyes:

:smile: :smile: What happened to the vile of poison? Did he drink it?

~H
 
He doesn't seem to have posted anything since, so... maybe.
 
The problem started around 6:30 am EST. It was extremely frustrating...worse than the site being completely inaccessible.

On a related note, is Greg okay ? Hasn't been so much as a blip from him lately.
 
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That sucked...:cry:

I, at first, thought it was just me but then I noticed that, for some reason, Hootenanny (who was, at the time, helping me with a homework assignment) kept logging in and out. I found that strange so I looked over each of the folders and realized that the last post was made at about 6AM which was odd because, what with how many people were on, no one appeared to be posting.
 
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Just restarted apache and everything went back to normal. As for me, this time of year is really busy for me.
 
  • #12
What a relief! PF was in "Read-Only" mode yesterday :biggrin:. I thought there was something seriously wrong with my network. Good that is fixed now.:smile:
 
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AngelShare said:
That sucked...:cry:

Tell me about it I started getting withdrawl symptoms after an hour or so; sitting in the corner rocking back and forth mumbling to myself with the lights turned off.

~H
 
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No kidding. I was at work, and I actually ended up working until it came back up.
 
  • #15
And this morning the server was again offline for several hours.
 
  • #16
Greg has his off peak timer just right, i did not miss a thing :approve:
 

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