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Offline syrinx0

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Site was down again for a short time..
« on: April 04, 2020, 03:54:04 AM »
I noticed it down at 10:36 pm Chicago time.  10:43 pm it was back up.  Unable to access the database was the error.


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Offline syrinx0

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2020, 08:22:15 PM »
Followed shortly by the 504 Error.

Error 504 Ray ID: 57e81e544e1e8125 • 2020-04-04 03:59:45 UTC
Gateway time-out

Hopefully reporting these times is useful.

Offline Tactalvanic

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2020, 06:59:00 AM »
If the guys are looking, it does help a lot knowing when such happen as it makes it sooo much easier to check the system logs having an actual time value and zone to work from.

504 errors can be the server, the network or you the client.

Database error, usually the site/system but may even be intermediary systems trying to speed up content delivery (eg CDN hosting services)

However early hours like that is usually when I run some regular system maintenance stuff on our systems, LAF server may be similar - backups, site replication, audits and cleanups, so it might just be the server is busy doing other stuff than content delivery for a few minutes, and unable to respond to requests. you tend to want to have them happen during low usage periods, which is hard on systems that have globally distributed users.

If its an issue/fault they can be tricky to track down unless you know your systems and sites configuration well enough to direct the response to the right cause, eg prove it off your own network first, before handing it to service provider or something else, if you can.

I guess for LAF forum which is great but basically provided as such for free (thanks as always guys) short outages of minutes, no big deal?

If it is something you get a lot, try checking with one of the up/down sites like

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

or

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/

There are others, that's just what googlefoo spat out top of search

It might give a better indication if its affecting just you or others to, and ease some frustration.

I tend to access the site at some odd hours for break and mind relax, during long night work sessions, the distraction helps a lot. But do sometimes get errors, timeouts on occasion but they clear usually with a simple refresh, I would be mortified to say the least if it was down for longer  :(

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2020, 01:11:39 AM »
All of my reported times were down to the "internet" ( https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com).  None were due to my system, equipment  or ISP from my reports.  I always check that to make sure I am getting what I pay for.   :)

My question was more along the lines of are these reports useful?  I don't expect a hobby website to have 100% uptime.  If the issue is a known limitation that is not going to be addressed at this time I just won't bother reporting it.   It it is helpful I would.
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Tom

« Last Edit: April 06, 2020, 01:21:30 AM by syrinx0 »

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2020, 04:52:38 AM »
Not accessible from the internet from 11:46 to 11:50 Chicago time tonight.    504 errors then the database error. A minute later it was fine.

Offline Bravo Six

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2020, 10:34:14 PM »
This is happening alot these days. Must be due to the lockdown traffic. lol

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #6 on: April 30, 2020, 11:47:49 PM »
I had a message a few days ago. Really strange, never saw that message before. Something along the lines of unable to access the database that Syrinx0 mentioned.
It only lasted about 10 minutes. Was maybe 10-11am. I chalked it up to first world problems.
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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #7 on: April 30, 2020, 11:55:29 PM »
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I chalked it up to first world problems

 lol lol

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2020, 01:47:49 AM »
Yeah. I stopped mentioning it as it just comes back later.  Probably a maintenance cycle somewhere.  A good time to get a drink or get back to painting. Or both.  lol

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2020, 02:02:06 AM »
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Probably a maintenance cycle somewhere.  A good time to get a drink or get back to painting. Or both

 lol lol

Amen to that.

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2020, 10:59:17 AM »
twice this morning for me her in France around 10am French time

cheers
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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2020, 01:40:54 PM »
Down 4 times for me in the last hour. I don't think the forum can handle the traffic.

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Re: Site was down again for a short time..
« Reply #12 on: May 20, 2020, 12:58:08 AM »
I assume this is a cloud based server now.  Could be some throttling due to load.  Definitely seems to happen at various times of the day.