What is wrong with the site? (Please read updated post #1)

NeitherJohn · 26-07-2020 08:31AM

Yeah I'm getting them too on touch site. Logged in or not.

The_Conductor · 26-07-2020 08:59AM

Deleted User wrote: »

I swear it must be the owner's 14-year-old nephew running this place

My 10 year old is proficient with MySQL- and it pays the bills for my little wifey and I.

However- the fact that the busiest site in Ireland has managed to keep up with demand over the past 19 weeks- with only occasional hiccups, does have to be applauded.

Give the guys a break- the downtime, while unscheduled, was late at night on a Saturday night- when most normal people were either pissed or asleap.

If I were to have unscheduled downtime- I'd very happily settle for a similar outage.

Canis Lupus · 26-07-2020 09:01AM

Boards was down today all day (so night time in Ireland( and the same the day before. Being the weekend and it coming back during Ireland day time I assumed it was planned maintenance of some sort.

26-07-2020 09:07AM

Planned downtime should have a notice up.. Not a cloudflare notice saying the site is down.

Cookie_Monster · 26-07-2020 09:30AM

touch site is borked again today

Beasty · 26-07-2020 09:37AM

We had another spam attack overnight and I suspect Cloudfare kicked in.

The Office/Developers will hopefully be able to confirm/explain when they are back tomorrow (although one of the Developers does seem to keep his eye on things in out of office hours and may chip in before that)

26-07-2020 09:46AM

This is it wrote: »

Relax...

This is the forum to talk about it. I'm not ranting about this in real life.

GinSoaked · 26-07-2020 10:47AM

Beasty wrote: »

We had another spam attack overnight and I suspect Cloudfare kicked in.

The Office/Developers will hopefully be able to confirm/explain when they are back tomorrow (although one of the Developers does seem to keep his eye on things in out of office hours and may chip in before that)

Down totally for a while there nothing to do with Cloudflare just the 503 screen.

Overheal · 26-07-2020 02:27PM

This is it wrote: »

Relax...

He was he was just rationalizing how it probably wasn’t downtime. And it wasn’t. Kinda assumed spam given recent announcements.

JP Liz V1 · 26-07-2020 04:56PM

521, 503 errors

suicide_circus · 26-07-2020 05:41PM

intermittent 503s all day

Cookie_Monster · 27-07-2020 08:21AM

503s all day

charlietheminxx · 27-07-2020 08:26AM

Still getting 503s - this is the first time I've been able to get on at all today.

Vicxas · 27-07-2020 08:34AM

503's and SQL errors all morning

Boards.ie: Mark · 27-07-2020 08:35AM

Sorry for the disruption over the weekend everyone. The dev team will be investigating the cause, but hopefully things are back to normal again. There may, however, be some gremlins lurking that may cause some disruption as they get ironed out. Sorry about that.

Tork · 29-07-2020 07:24AM

I'm getting an error on the touch site

An exception occured in driver: SQLSTATE[08004] [1040] Too many connections

pjohnson · 29-07-2020 07:25AM

Is the touch site being discontinued or something?

29-07-2020 07:28AM

Are the issues only happening on touch site? I only ever change my phone to full site if I’m adding an image. Screen too small to view properly otherwise.

Tork · 29-07-2020 07:35AM

Yeah, it's just on the Touch site. The full site is working fine on my phone. I cleared my browser's cache, just in case that was a problem but that made no difference. I got a database error when I tried to log back in but it let me in anyway.

29-07-2020 07:42AM

I'm getting a lot of 503s on desktop today, especially earlier when it would have been night time in Ireland. It's certainly not regular traffic that's doing it if most of the userbase is asleep.

gifted · 29-07-2020 07:47AM

Lots of issues over the last few months....let's call a spade a spade..it reflects badly on Boards.

CH3OH · 29-07-2020 07:32PM

I got this at 7 this morning

Muscles Schultz · 29-07-2020 07:58PM

CH3OH wrote: »

I got this at 7 this morning

It’s most mornings. No one seems to care.

Overheal · 29-07-2020 10:13PM

Muscles Schultz wrote: »

It’s most mornings. No one seems to care.

I haven’t got this a once on touch, so it may be a subset of users.

What are you doing when this happens? Loading a thread page, searching, posting a reply?

I don’t think it’s fair to say nobody cares but Covid and recent spam attacks as announced may be challenging resources

30-07-2020 03:32AM

That message is when you try to view a thread iirc.

corsav6 · 30-07-2020 07:53AM

503 error every morning for me. Tried logged in, logged out, cache cleaned, desktop site and touch. I've even uninstalled chrome and reinstalled but same error every morning.