The connection has timed out

[Bonobo]

[..]

Let me be clear that I was just teasing you

that was clear to me …

(my smiley didn't convey my meaning well enough

But yes, it did, at least to me.

[..]

Same message for you, Bonobo. Not trying to harp on anybody!

Thanks, but … was not needed. Peace


And:

You are assuming that my programming skills are way more current than they actually are. I don't mess around under the hood much [..] for this kind of problem, I pass it on to Jordus.

Oh, OK, I’m still not too well informed about who does what here


Greetings, Tom

[Bonobo]

I’m getting 503 errors again …

Interestingly, the “view unread posts” loads w/o any problem. But as soon as I try to load one of those threads, first it seems (tries?) to load for an eternety (slow progress wheel in Chrome), then I (mostly) get this 503, plus, for example, this message:

Request failed.

Got java.net.SocketException (Connection reset): http://www.lifein19x19.com/forum/viewto ... iew=unread

What does Java have to do with this?

But sometimes the page gets loaded after a few minutes, and then this happens quickly (fast progress wheel in Chrome), but often, oddly, it does not go to the last unread post but to the top of the page.

[jts]

Pages were loading extremely slowly this morning, around 11:30 am EST.

[Bill Spight]

Connection is now slow, and the site has been effectively unavailable for hours.

[ez4u]

I was unable to connect at all from 7 am Tokyo time to just now ~7 hours. That was with firefox and chrome on windows and safari and chrome on iOS.

[tj86430]

There has been a lot of connection problems lately (say, for a week now). Slow response times, lot of "unable to connect"'s, being logged out (while using "log me on automatically") etc.

[Mage]

Same ^

[Bonobo]

ditto

[Boidhre]

Connection seems fine now but the site was inaccessible to me yesterday.

[Dusk Eagle]

I think it's pretty clear there's something wrong with the site that needs a long term fix. These last couple of days have been especially bad, but this thread is evidence that we've been having problems for a while.

[Bantari]

I think it's pretty clear there's something wrong with the site that needs a long term fix. These last couple of days have been especially bad, but this thread is evidence that we've been having problems for a while.

I second this motion.

[Joaz Banbeck]

[admin]

I hear you guys.

I'm sorry, but there is nothing that I can do right now. Jordus is the contact point for the hosting company, and he has to be the one to fix this. I've sent messages to him, but have not heard an answer.

When he does finally get in touch, I am going to request - in addition to all the obvious stuff - that he gives my contact info to the hosting company so that I'll be able to handle hosting problems in the future.

JB

PS: Has anyone in Michigan or surrounding areas met him in person? @Kirby: He should be near you.

[/admin]

[xed_over]

PS: Has anyone in Michigan or surrounding areas met him in person? @Kirby: He should be near you.

Kirby is in Seattle now.

[Bonobo]

This last time I got

The server does not respond at all.
Try again a bit later.

and just to be sure I visited http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ... com/forum/ (yes, that’s the link for trying) and got

It's not just you! http://www.lifein19x19.com looks down from here.

[… minutes later …]

And just when want to submit this, I get the same msg again

NOW, about 2 hours later, it was no problem to submit.

[jts]

Thanks for keeping us in the loop, Joaz.

Is anyone archiving this site? Or does anyone have the technical savvy to do so? (I do not.) It would be a shame if the site died and we lost everything.