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

JaMarcusHustle · 05-10-2015 10:05pm

Good work Dav, looks like everything is back to normascdsacasmmcddccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc

Dr. Mantis Toboggan · 05-10-2015 10:06pm

padd b1975 wrote: »

I don't know what has been more annoying these past few days....

The site acting up, or the "hilarious" one-liners about hamsters:rolleyes::rolleyes:

Well said Padd. Best delivery you ever made.

Overheal · 06-10-2015 3:12am

Dav wrote: »

I wouldn't mind, but those were my first holidays (barring the odd day off here and there) since January.

I'm American and can't fathom getting holidays every year

Penny Tration · 06-10-2015 7:27am

Overheal wrote: »

I'm American and can't fathom getting holidays every year

Most people in Ireland get four weeks per year though (20 days).

Stheno · 06-10-2015 7:32am

Penny Tration wrote: »

Most people in Ireland get four weeks per year though (20 days).

Unless you're self employed

uck51js9zml2yt · 06-10-2015 7:49am

Stheno wrote: »

Unless you're self employed

For the self employed there is a correlation between the time spent on boards, the amount of work done and the ability to take holidays.
Either that or you need to buy a hamster to cover your absence

cowboyBuilder · 06-10-2015 7:55am

Oh boo fûcking Hoo boards was down for a bit !!
Get over it ffs !!

Look up from our screens people !!

Loughc · 06-10-2015 8:11am

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Oh boo fûcking Hoo boards was down for a bit !!
Get over it ffs !!

Look up from our screens people !!

What and leave my man cave and get attacked by the sun?

Not today Satan. Nice try.

Tompatrick · 06-10-2015 8:18am

Caden Broad Fawn wrote: »

For the self employed there is a correlation between the time spent on boards, the amount of work done and the ability to take holidays.
Either that or you need to buy a hamster to cover your absence

Tee hee hee ! Hamster joke ! Lollers mega styleee

cowboyBuilder · 06-10-2015 8:41am

Dav wrote: »

Hello everyone.

I'm back form 2 week's holidays today, only to arrive in and find that an ESB substation has popped somewhere around the South William St area and so we've been sitting here with no internet connection in the office for nearly 4 hours. When it rains, it pours, eh?

OK, so the site has been, to use the technical term, bolloxed. I don't fully know why, but we are obviously investigating as I type. Preliminary investigations suggest that one of our database servers went kaput (we have 3) and then a DDOS attack took a second one out of sync which is why you see notification errors, 404's when you post and basically, most of the problems that've been reported over the last 5 days.

It is obviously our number 1 priority to get all 3 database servers back up and running at full speed and in full synchronisation this afternoon so that the vast bulk of these problems disappear.

I will keep you all posted via this thread as the day goes on - I have a couple of weeks worth of stuff to catch up on, so please bear with me.

Finally, I'm really sorry the site's been such a pain in the arse to use this last week or so, I've been just as frustrated as the rest of you because I've been trying to use it too on my time off. We've dropped the ball and that's not good enough and not how we do things, so again, I'm sorry, but we're trying to put it right as we speak.

No need to apologise like that, I think the vast majority of users on here aren't like an American corporate board !!

boards is a great site thats up 99% of the time ... these things happen.

_Tombstone_ · 06-10-2015 10:23am

Outta curiosity, what's the uptime now?

I think DeV said 99% before The Great Airsoft Merging" that time, but it seems to be buggy alot lately.

my3cents · 06-10-2015 10:31am

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Outta curiosity, what's the uptime now?

I think DeV said 99% before The Great Airsoft Merging" that time, but it seems to be buggy alot lately.

But how do you count uptime? Did it actually go down this time, seems to me it just about hung on.

_Tombstone_ · 06-10-2015 10:54am

my3cents wrote: »

But how do you count uptime? Did it actually go down this time, seems to me it just about hung on.

Ah, you're right.

Better question so....why is their so many problems with the site, in general like, all year??

How far off is the new one now?

nesf · 06-10-2015 2:37pm

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

Better question so....why is their so many problems with the site, in general like, all year??

Do a Google search for "DDOS attacks increase 2015." General site instability has been a problem across the net in the past year due to a big increase in sites getting attacked and it doesn't look like stopping. I can't imagine boards.ie has been spared from this.

naughto · 06-10-2015 2:51pm

nesf wrote: »

Do a Google search for "DDOS attacks increase 2015." General site instability has been a problem across the net in the past year due to a big increase in sites getting attacked and it doesn't look like stopping. I can't imagine boards.ie has been spared from this.

Who did dav piss off for all the ddos attacks then?

kissmequick · 06-10-2015 2:53pm

I have wanted to put my fist through the wall yesterday reading another Thread where people couldn't stop whinging about it being down. MOTHER OF GOD!!! All the whinging is actually 200% more annoying than not having the use of the fricking Site!!! I went to post something there yesterday or previous day and it was down and I didn't expend my energy going on about it I just went off and did something else fully confident that it would be back when it's back!!

Turn off the Computer for 3 hours people!! Go outside! Talk to a Neighbour. Read a book. Go for a drive. Just do something. JESUS.......

nesf · 06-10-2015 2:54pm

naughto wrote: »

Who did dav piss off for all the ddos attacks then?

It's no longer just about pissing off people, it's about me stopping the attack when you pay me. It's become an extortion racket basically.

An article on it: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/dd4bc-are-ddos-attack-driving-force-new-report-claims/article/435234/

_Kaiser_ · 06-10-2015 4:03pm

Still acting up a bit today... pages jumping back, posts not appearing until you refresh a few times etc...

my3cents · 06-10-2015 4:35pm

nesf wrote: »

It's no longer just about pissing off people, it's about me stopping the attack when you pay me. It's become an extortion racket basically.

An article on it: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/dd4bc-are-ddos-attack-driving-force-new-report-claims/article/435234/

How much did they pay you

_Tombstone_ · 06-10-2015 4:35pm

kissmequick wrote: »

I have wanted to put my fist through the wall yesterday reading another Thread where people couldn't stop whinging about it being down. MOTHER OF GOD!!! All the whinging is actually 200% more annoying than not having the use of the fricking Site!!! I went to post something there yesterday or previous day and it was down and I didn't expend my energy going on about it I just went off and did something else fully confident that it would be back when it's back!!

Turn off the Computer for 3 hours people!! Go outside! Talk to a Neighbour. Read a book. Go for a drive. Just do something. JESUS.......

Eh, why read them? What are you even posting in here for?

Tompatrick · 06-10-2015 5:10pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Still acting up a bit today... pages jumping back, posts not appearing until you refresh a few times etc...

Hamsters still tired etc. Max Lollers!

uck51js9zml2yt · 06-10-2015 5:30pm

To summarise events
The Chinchilla was away on his second holiday of the year(you'd think we were in the Celtic tiger).
While he was away 2 of the 3 hamsters decided to go on strike while the 3rd, conscientious hamster tried to keep things going and couldn't.

The gerbils were nowhere to be seen over the weekend to give the 2 striking rodents a kick start and all we had were a few Guinea pigs saying we shouldnt be voicing our concerns about being forced into the real world and having to interact with people who could give us a clout if we upset them.
The only solution is to cut Davs salary so he can't afford to go on any more holidays.

WarZ · 06-10-2015 6:39pm

Site is acting up again

testicle · 07-10-2015 1:05am

Avatars are missing all over the shop.

Overheal · 07-10-2015 4:49am

^ Just by my CP dropdown and its now working better than before, overall everything is running more smoothly than yesterday and such

possible sidenote on the "Who Posted?" popup, the column for User Name is impractically wide

El Weirdo · 07-10-2015 9:36am

Overheal wrote: »

possible sidenote on the "Who Posted?" popup, the column for User Name is impractically wide

Pretty sure it's always been like that.

KomradeBishop · 07-10-2015 11:59am

So, assuming this is mostly resolved or on the way to being so, what was it that was actually happening here? Just a bog standard DDoS, or something more - e.g. something that could have messed up server configuration?

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 07-10-2015 2:29pm

"OK, so the site has been, to use the technical term, bolloxed."

Guess I've found my new sig :pac:

Dav · 07-10-2015 4:40pm

I've been getting through our backlog of emails and there were a few in today from people who were still having these issues. The monitoring stuff we have here as well as our own use of the site today is suggesting that everything is ok, so I'm checking to see how many of you are experiencing difficulties.

Darkglasses · 07-10-2015 4:47pm

Dav wrote: »

I've been getting through our backlog of emails and there were a few in today from people who were still having these issues. The monitoring stuff we have here as well as our own use of the site today is suggesting that everything is ok, so I'm checking to see how many of you are experiencing difficulties.

For about an hour or so today I was having some of the same issues as I was having over the weekend. Mainly being brought to the same page in a thread over and over (despite clicking to a different page) and new threads not appearing.

If it matters, it was mostly on the "Sys" forums like Feedback and Moderators.

Loughc · 07-10-2015 4:50pm

YLYL thread is bringing me to the same page in a thread over and over. It might be a bug in the matrix though.

KERSPLAT! · 07-10-2015 4:54pm

Sometimes when I read the last post in a thread it shows that there's another page, I click on the page but it's the same last post that i've already read... not a major issue obviously but it does mean there's something going on

Lovely Bloke · 07-10-2015 5:12pm

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Sometimes when I read the last post in a thread it shows that there's another page, I click on the page but it's the same last post that i've already read... not a major issue obviously but it does mean there's something going on

yeah, getting that too

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5 · 07-10-2015 5:59pm

Followed threads are acting up a bit for me. There's a couple that keep appearing back in the list, neither of them have been posted in in the last four days (and one of them is locked); it was happening with more threads but seems to be just those two now

Dav · 07-10-2015 6:07pm

OK, thanks folks, that'll be going on the investigation list first thing in the morning for the tech team.

ED E · 07-10-2015 10:47pm

Still happening in broadband and comp & tech intermittently. Thanks dav.

Lovely Bloke · 07-10-2015 11:01pm

Just had a 503 on the touch

Lovely Bloke · 07-10-2015 11:02pm

... And a 404 when submitting

uck51js9zml2yt · 07-10-2015 11:07pm

Tried. To quote someone in a reply and it didn't quote!

Also got a 404 and when I went to edit this post got a non existent id

Fluorescence · 07-10-2015 11:08pm

I get the occasional 503 when going to User CP on the main site but a refresh fixes it. Otherwise not having any difficulties at all.

GLaDOS · 07-10-2015 11:17pm

Just had a 404 going into a thread on touch

GLaDOS · 07-10-2015 11:20pm

ScienceNerd wrote: »

Just had a 404 going into a thread on touch

Just had to refresh a thread to get all the posts to load as well.

Another 404 opening this thread to make this post to boot.

Twas merely the eye of the storm.

unkel · 07-10-2015 11:36pm

Dav wrote: »

our own use of the site today is suggesting that everything is ok

Looks like we are heavier users of the site than you are so

Posy · 07-10-2015 11:50pm

I'm still getting 503's on touch- and there are a couple of threads on the full site where I click 'next page' and just keep getting the same page, on a loop.

KERSPLAT! · 07-10-2015 11:53pm

404 when opening this thread

mirrorwall14 · 08-10-2015 12:01am

Getting 404s here too.

Posted here then I went back to the homepage. Clicked on my forums and got a post an hour ago in the 'who would you vote for thread', click on the my threads and there's a post 17 mins ago in the same thread?

Come back here to edit my post. Clicking on the thread takes me to the top of the third page instead of the bottom and when I scroll down none of the posts from the last hour are there. Three refreshes later my own post appears. Bedtime I think

New Home · 08-10-2015 12:04am

Has anyone remembered to feed the hamsters today? They're restless, it looks like they got hold of the time machine and are messing with it and the notification counter again...

michael999999 · 08-10-2015 12:05am

Unusable again!

ganmo · 08-10-2015 12:06am

Just got directed to attached from this thread...opened in the same webpage no popup etc

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

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