Problem

GAF

Someone really hates this site.

Gary

Hmmmm..

 I wonder why.

Friday, June 7, 2024. Everything works perfect.

Saturday, June 8, 2024. Nothing works at all.

One day it works and the next day.

                       who knows.

Now, it's dragging again.

This is an example of why the forums are heading for a fall.

I took a back door approach just to see if "this" entry works at all.

Now........ let's give it another try......     click

It will continue until the denial of service attacks end.

Someone really hates this site.

Gary

Strongeagle

OK. Going into the third month of guessing whether or not....

Since I've been here sooooo long, I'm trying to be patient.

The past 24 hours here on the forum has been the best in the last almost 3 months so I'll hang on for a while to see if it's still worth my time.....  I'm not getting any younger FAST.

I might even post a build if this bug clears up.

OK.  Going into the third month of guessing whether or not  I'll be able to logon.  Really guys, I've lost interest.  Been a member since 2017.  I'm taking this forum off of my list of go-to model websites.  I have a least four sites that I visit regularly and NONE of them fight me about being able to log in.

Adios Amigos 

It was better over the past few days, since Friday, but it's worse again today.

Maybe with the acquisition, the new company might decide to find another host, since this one can't seem to resolve this.

Also, I think others mentioned this in other threads about the server/traffic issue, but it seems that new posts are down. I wonder if many forum members are so frustrated that they don't try to access the forum now.

And understood that it's not the FSM staff's fault, but the host's issue.  You guys can't really do anything about that.

504 Gateway Time-out
5/19/24
Sorry, there was a problem with your last request!

Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too.

Yeah, persists today.  I can see why some forum members just give up trying. If you have limited time to visit, it's hard to wait.

the Baron

Spoke too soon.  The delays are back again today.  On login, navigating via the index, replying.  Again, refreshing the page is a workaround, but it might take several tries.

Ditto.  Took two timeouts and three tries to get on the forum this afternoon.

Spoke too soon.  The delays are back again today.  On login, navigating via the index, replying.  Again, refreshing the page is a workaround, but it might take several tries.

Performance is much improved over the past couple of days, back to normal, pretty much.  Pages loading in seconds.

The rug shampoo machine is not in its closet.  And the extension cord has gone missing...

No, more local...

Looks like it's starting again.  Guess the power outage is over.

Gary

GAF

The last time I saw something similar it was a DDOS.  It caused that website to die.

"Traffic spikes" as Tim called it.  But no posts.

Gary

............incoming from the ccp?

Let's hope not.

Real G

Hooray, they got the clog unstuck!

        yeah  ......time will tell.

Hooray, they got the clog unstuck!

The last time I saw something similar it was a DDOS.  It caused that website to die.

"Traffic spikes" as Tim called it.  But no posts.

Gary

Well, if it keeps up.... looks like new infrastructure will be the fix.

Way better right now. @3:00PM PDT

Tim Kidwell

Yes, it seems we had a flutter again.

About a week ago, it was almost normal, for like two days.

All this week it's been 50/50 on getting a Gateway Timeout.

You can hit Reply, and maybe it 'takes' and maybe it doesn't.

One thing I have noticed is that posts apear to be way down as a result. 

Many of the subfora have not seen a response in days or a week, or more.

Aircraft & Armor used to reliably have 6-12 responses per day; now, either of those might have had one response in the last 2-3 days.

There's a major bandwidth uh-oh that needs identifying.

A little better today than yesterday; the login page loaded immediately. But then the 504 error recurred.  Refreshing the page worked to load the index page, but the error persists.  Seems like the host still has some work to do.

Strongeagle

This site is Slow Slow Slow when it responds at all. 

It took me five tries and 30 minutes to get logged in this morning.  Is this going to end?

This site is Slow Slow Slow when it responds at all.  Worked fine early last week but now it's back to errors, time out and just plain slow response.  Even if you're lucky enough to make contact, navigating withing the forum is also slow slow slow.

I'm at the point where I'm about to write it off entirely.  Working on the problem a month is not so good.  Going into the second month is unacceptable.

It must be the chinese because the page just keeps draggin(dragon.)

I keep getting logged out, then it gives me a hard time logging back in.

I never know what to expect here anymore.

(May 8 2024)

Persists today (8May24).  The login page loaded relatively quickly, and login was successful.  But depending on the network traffic, I suppose, the error recurs.  Again, refreshing the page is a workaround; sometimes takes 2 or 3 page reloads to get the connection.

Error 504 is back again today, pretty severely.  I got it loading the index page, then when trying to browse from one page to another.  Refreshing the page works as a workaround, but not consistently.

Much improved today, performance is back to normal, no recurrence of error 504.  Well done to the server admins!

gregbale

 

 

Bakster

Extremely long delay for pages to load. Started for me on Sunday. 

 

 

 

I think they're carpet-shampooing the server.... 

 

I think somebody from the OUTSIDE is carpet-shampooing the server.  I have been unable to get in all week.

I'm in the same boat; barely getting anything to load the past week. I can get into the armor forum page, and that's about it.

Even this post took a while to go through.