Site outage

Discussion in 'Forum News / Announcements' started by Administrator, Apr 30, 2011.

  1. As many people noticed, the site was down for about 2.5 hours from 3:30pm. Typically, I'd just gone to Bunnings at 3:25pm and wasn't around when it happened.

    The web hosting account was temporarily suspended for "excessive resource consumption" - NOT individual users accounts - everyone (including me) saw the same message.

    I'm currently investigating the problem now that the site is available again, but there's no obvious culprit at this time.
     
  2. goldpelican

    goldpelican Administrator Staff Member

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    I've got close to 100 emails on this - please forgive me for not replying to everyone individually.
     
  3. sammysilver

    sammysilver Well-Known Member Silver Stacker

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    Got back from the Campervan show here in Sydney, logged in to find that I had been suspended.

    I thought my criminal past had caught up to me. I was going to re-register with a new identity as silversammy and trick the lot of you.
     
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    'Thought I was banned for a second! All good again :)
     
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    Glad to see things are back to normal. Hope the resource usage problem gets cleared up quickly.
     
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    fishball New Member Silver Stacker

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    Perhaps the site is sending out too many emails? I read VentraIP's plan outline & their T&C and it seems they have a limit on emails/day.

    I know I have set private messages as email alerts and perhaps others are using subscription for threads which could explain what happened.

    Anyway best of luck to fixing the issue ;)
     
  7. goldpelican

    goldpelican Administrator Staff Member

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    Nope, it was a couple of hundred processes being spawned - a script or something went wild.

    Again - individual users were NOT banned - I'm still getting emails from people even now that the forum is up asking why they were suspended. I had no control over the page or the message that was displayed to people.
     
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    Maybe you paying the site bills with Pay Pal
     
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    I started crying :(
     
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    Was wondering what i done wrong was about to send the enforcer around to have a talk with you :p:
     
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    hehehe
     
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    Maggie New Member Silver Stacker

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    I was having withdrawal symptoms
     
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    Chillidog New Member Silver Stacker

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    How many had sales half complete? I had the buyers money and no address to send it too. Started to panic about broken trade Ect Ect. All good now but still don't want to part with the goods. Ha ha
     
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    CriticalSilver New Member Silver Stacker

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    I tried to buy the domain name!
     
  15. THUCYDIDES79

    THUCYDIDES79 New Member Silver Stacker

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    I thought the "Unreported Spreadsheet " got me banned from the forum !

    glad it was a glitch.

    ;)
     
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    Contrarian New Member

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    Me too.

    I'm thinking how the hell am I going to track someone down in sydney with only their username.

    A good idea to always exchange some other form of contact outside private message.

    C
     
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    Sounds like that guy with the script needs a smack upside the head. Its not the first time its happened :p
     
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    I always send a my mobile number for all transactions
     
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    Yeah I send my mobile number too. But if the receiver is lazy like me and leaves everything sitting in PM then it's not much use!


    C
     
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    Did my transaction all last night, all good :)
     

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