Server trouble today

[DirtyDog]

The server is having heartburn today and we may see periodic downtime until that is resolved. Working on it......

 

[DirtyDog]

test post 123

 

[DirtyDog]

It appears that the server is under some kind of ongoing hacking attack that is making it very slow to respond at certain parts of the day. This could make posting very slow. If you are trying to post, please do not hit the submit button several times.

 

[MarkBC]

Seems MUCH better today

...so far.

 

[Ted]

I noticed things were moving slow this morning when I logged on about 7:00. Seems to be working better now.

 

[mtn-high]

Dunno if it's on my end 'er what...but starting Saturday the "new content" button brings up a "database error" page rather than new content. Having to go in and wade through the posts section-by-section is a pain so I'd really like to get this feature back if possible. Any ideas (or problems going on?) ?

many thanks

mtn

 

[Phird05]

No trouble here mtn.

Just used the button to get here.

Have a great day....the sun is out!

Paul

 

[chnlisle]

Ditto Phird.

 

[DLN]

No errors here, just business as usual.

 

[mtn-high]

Still happening here. Says it's a driver error....

must be on my end.... I have no ideas....so unless it rights itself I'll be spendin less time here cus it's a pain.

have fun. Be safe

mtn

 

[RJones]

I'm on Vail.net and having no problems here.

 

[DirtyDog]

Still happening here. Says it's a driver error....

must be on my end.... I have no ideas....so unless it rights itself I'll be spendin less time here cus it's a pain.

have fun. Be safe

mtn


It might be that the time of day you are trying to access the site is when the overseas hackers are doing their business. I'll let my server guy know.

 

[ski3pin]

"overseas hackers"...........so DD, us run of the mill regular folks, should we be concerned about this and being members of this site?

 

[DirtyDog]

"overseas hackers"...........so DD, us run of the mill regular folks, should we be concerned about this and being members of this site?


No its just Denial of Service stuff they aren't stealing any info. I don't know what the motivation is but they flood the server with so many requests that it grinds to a halt.

 

[mtn-high]

www.wanderthewest.com Driver Error
There appears to be an error with the database. If you are seeing this page, it means there was a problem communicating with our database. Sometimes this error is temporary and will go away when you refresh the page. Sometimes the error will need to be fixed by an administrator before the site will become accessible again.

You can try to refresh the page by clicking here


DD.....This is the message I'm seeing when i hit "new content" Any ideas? It's really frustrating to have mto go through the posts section by section....

 

[DirtyDog]

www.wanderthewest.com Driver Error
There appears to be an error with the database. If you are seeing this page, it means there was a problem communicating with our database. Sometimes this error is temporary and will go away when you refresh the page. Sometimes the error will need to be fixed by an administrator before the site will become accessible again.

You can try to refresh the page by clicking here


DD.....This is the message I'm seeing when i hit "new content" Any ideas? It's really frustrating to have mto go through the posts section by section....


Its the same problem, too many server requests causes the server to run out of memory and the db crashes.

 

[craig333]

Ever hear of group called anonymous? They're pissed at Sony. No ones done any gaming all week.

https://www.soe.com/securityupdate/recentupdates.vm

 

[mtn-high]

I "fixed" it by changing the settings on new content from "view all content I haven't read" to "view content since last visit".

I don't think it has anything to do with the server being busy as I tried 5 times today @ all hours of the day and it did the same thing each time.

whatevah...

 

[DirtyDog]

I "fixed" it by changing the settings on new content from "view all content I haven't read" to "view content since last visit".

I don't think it has anything to do with the server being busy as I tried 5 times today @ all hours of the day and it did the same thing each time.

whatevah...


Oh sorry i missed the part about the new content. This software has turned out to not be all that great in many areas unfortunately.

 

[rich]

Hey Mtn.,

I had never actually noticed the "view new content" button, so thanks for your post on here. That is going to save me a lot of time...seems like no matter how web savy I get I am still tech defficient