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I just got another error (only a few minutes) when opening the Bitcointalk forum:

Is it part of the previous admin's plan to upgrade the main server?

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

-snip-
I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months.

I just tried to test opening several sub-boards, and I felt there was an increase in speed in loading the page.
I tried to see the Diagnose performance issues via Google PageSpeed Insights. Here are the results:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bitcointalk-org/zxw6hgsdx3?form_factor=mobile

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-bitcointalk-org/zxw6hgsdx3?form_factor=desktop

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Quote from: joker_josue on October 14, 2023, 03:01:51 AM

Quote from: virasog on October 13, 2023, 11:00:40 PM

Quote from: joker_josue on October 13, 2023, 06:56:13 PM

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks.

This is not an earthquake where we expect to experience the aftershocks Shocked

Of course! But, after so many hours of inactivity, delays in DNS propagation may occur. So all it takes is for a connection to use a DNS path that has not yet been updated, and this problem will occur.

Please note, I am not saying that this is what happened, just that it is a possibility.

No, I don't think that's what happened. Theymos didn't say anything about messing with DNS records, so there would be no DNS propagation delay. It was probably just some extra changes on the server that needed another restart. The last downtime didn't last longer than a few minutes, as far as I can see, just the time it takes for all services to kick back in after the server restart.

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Quote from: FatFork on October 12, 2023, 08:20:28 AM

I'm feeling disappointed now. Sad

i think the plan for the upgrade is because of this unknown downtime accoutred a few times in the past.

That's not the upgrade I had in mind. Wink

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Quote from: The Sceptical Chymist on October 12, 2023, 01:53:02 PM

I just got up from my busted-up chair, stretched my legs, and went for a bike ride.

I miss those old days. Now bike riding feels very risky, in-fact wife don't allow me bike LOL

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That was hours ago, and *yay!* we're back. I don't know much about cloudfare, but I thought there might be some kind of DDOS attack (and if that were to happen, some other screen would probably show up, right?). So let's get back to the fun and games, kids.

It was not about any DDOS attack. It was something related to hosting as per Theymos.

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Quote from: virasog on October 13, 2023, 11:00:40 PM

Quote from: joker_josue on October 13, 2023, 06:56:13 PM

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks.

This is not an earthquake where we expect to experience the aftershocks Shocked

Of course! But, after so many hours of inactivity, delays in DNS propagation may occur. So all it takes is for a connection to use a DNS path that has not yet been updated, and this problem will occur.

Please note, I am not saying that this is what happened, just that it is a possibility.

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Quote from: acroman08 on October 13, 2023, 02:35:49 PM

how long do you think was it down? because for me I got the error after clicking on the scam accusation board and then I waited at least 30sec-1min then I refreshed the browser and then it was fine again. I thought the error was so brief and assumed no one noticed so I didn't bother mentioning it here.

I felt the same thing, maybe it was an outage of less than a minute or so, not a big deal but since these days there are so many of them, so sometimes it gets concerning as what if the bitcointalk is again down for a few hours and especially at the time we are active on the forum.

Quote from: joker_josue on October 13, 2023, 06:56:13 PM

It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks.

This is not an earthquake where we expect to experience the aftershocks Shocked

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It is normal after an incident of this type that there may be some aftershocks. Normally nothing significant, but it can happen. Sometimes it's not even related to the website directly, but rather to the propagation of DNS throughout the world. That's why no hosting company in the world guarantees 100% uptime. Normally it is 99% or 99.9%. Roll Eyes

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Quote from: virasog on October 13, 2023, 02:17:11 PM

Quote from: LoyceV on October 13, 2023, 08:03:02 AM

Quote from: digaran on October 13, 2023, 07:01:39 AM

I'm saying this because LoyceV mentioned that their scrappers were down as well. Maybe they are related?

My scraper didn't miss a post when the forum was down yesterday. I did miss posts in the past when Cloudflare blocked it.
Of course this is related: if the forum is down, obviously I can't scrape it.

Well, i guess no one may have noticed but it happened again. I think if I hadn't taken this screenshot, no one would have believed me that bitcointalk was down for a sometime again a few minutes ago Undecided

how long do you think was it down? because for me I got the error after clicking on the scam accusation board and then I waited at least 30sec-1min then I refreshed the browser and then it was fine again. I thought the error was so brief and assumed no one noticed so I didn't bother mentioning it here.

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You did not need to attach the screenshot because I did notice it, I was making a post at the time and was using the preview button at the time. From what is being posted by others, I think this is occurring far more regularly now than at any other time I have known before.

Quote from: virasog on October 13, 2023, 02:17:11 PM

Well, i guess no one may have noticed but it happened again. I think if I hadn't taken this screenshot, no one would have believed me that bitcointalk was down for a sometime again a few minutes ago Undecided

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Quote from: LoyceV on October 13, 2023, 08:03:02 AM

Quote from: digaran on October 13, 2023, 07:01:39 AM

I'm saying this because LoyceV mentioned that their scrappers were down as well. Maybe they are related?

My scraper didn't miss a post when the forum was down yesterday. I did miss posts in the past when Cloudflare blocked it.
Of course this is related: if the forum is down, obviously I can't scrape it.

Well, i guess no one may have noticed but it happened again. I think if I hadn't taken this screenshot, no one would have believed me that bitcointalk was down for a sometime again a few minutes ago Undecided

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Quote from: digaran on October 13, 2023, 07:01:39 AM

I'm saying this because LoyceV mentioned that their scrappers were down as well. Maybe they are related?

My scraper didn't miss a post when the forum was down yesterday. I did miss posts in the past when Cloudflare blocked it.
Of course this is related: if the forum is down, obviously I can't scrape it.

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Yesterday I noticed internet archive was down at the same time, is there a way to check all the outages in the past and see which other sites were affected at the same time?
I'm saying this because LoyceV mentioned that their scrappers were down as well. Maybe they are related?

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Quote from: LoyceV on October 13, 2023, 05:09:11 AM

Quote from: joker_josue on October 13, 2023, 04:51:37 AM

In reality, starting over is not difficult, you and TryNinja already have a copy of all forum activity.

You have too much confidence in me. In reality, we have an outdated and incomplete copy of only posts before they were edited, without user feedback, without associated email addresses, without full ban information and without forum infrastructure.

You never did anything to make me distrust you!

Yes, but to have this type of information, only if @theymos provides a regular bakcup, someone. This already seemed more complicated to me. Either way, I think he has worked out mechanisms so that if something happens to him, the project will continue to live.

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Quote from: joker_josue on October 13, 2023, 04:51:37 AM

In reality, starting over is not difficult, you and TryNinja already have a copy of all forum activity.

You have too much confidence in me. In reality, we have an outdated and incomplete copy of only posts before they were edited, without user feedback, without associated email addresses, without full ban information and without forum infrastructure.

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Quote from: LoyceV on October 13, 2023, 04:36:21 AM

Quote from: GxSTxV on October 12, 2023, 02:02:01 PM

Some of us can't live without Bitcointalk for even few hours LOL!

I was thinking we need a backup plan. What if some day the forum goes offline and doesn't get back up? It would be really nice if we can "start over" at another location, where only the real users can claim the same username. But to start, everyone would need to know that location and it can't be found without Bitcointalk.

In reality, starting over is not difficult, you and TryNinja already have a copy of all forum activity.

The question now is, how do you find the location, if it was only possible to find it via bitcointalk?

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Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

(The few minutes of downtime just now was due to me doing something, and is unrelated.)

Not again

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Quote from: GxSTxV on October 12, 2023, 02:02:01 PM

Some of us can't live without Bitcointalk for even few hours LOL!

I was thinking we need a backup plan. What if some day the forum goes offline and doesn't get back up? It would be really nice if we can "start over" at another location, where only the real users can claim the same username. But to start, everyone would need to know that location and it can't be found without Bitcointalk.

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This is one of those crazy experience everyone wouldn't love to have in a long while, like 3hrs and was still counting until it came back online. Hold on, is it that the next one might take a whole day? Maybe is time to start expecting it every month.

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It seems

Quote from: philipma1957 on October 12, 2023, 04:07:03 PM

I slept for the entire time. completely unaware of it until I read this thread.

best possible way to deal with down time just sleep right through it.

Some of us maybe would have slept through it but we are not all in the same time zones. I had no idea about the outage but I have noted from reading threads in meta, it seems to be happening a little more regularly than we would have expected.

Quote from: vapourminer on October 12, 2023, 04:57:28 PM

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 12, 2023, 04:57:35 AM

Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

his btc tx for hosting bounced

Now, imagine if that was something that really did happen Shocked

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Quote from: philipma1957 on October 12, 2023, 04:07:03 PM

I slept for the entire time. completely unaware of it until I read this thread.

best possible way to deal with down time just sleep right through it.

I don't actually know about the forum down time as I was totally not online and not aware of it, if not for this thread. I remember those days I was involved with the Ponzi scheme sites, whenever they go down and say about site maintenance, they might not return from there. But with the longevity of the forum and the calibre of personalities in the forum, I do not think there will be a time this forum will go down and theymos will not choose to restore the site.
In as much as theymos is willing to always renew the domain of this site, it will as long as bitcoin is lasting

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what is this "brake pedal" you speak of?

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 12, 2023, 04:57:35 AM

Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

his btc tx for hosting bounced

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I slept for the entire time. completely unaware of it until I read this thread.

best possible way to deal with down time just sleep right through it.

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Quote from: GxSTxV on October 12, 2023, 02:02:01 PM

This morning, I got worried when I noticed an unusual delay that took hours and different than previous time where it took only few minutes. I texted some friends and tried using different devices thinking the issue might be only on my device or my home network. But after checking websites like isitdownrightnow, I discovered that the problem is with everyone. In my opinion this is a serious issue, and even the administrators here are not aware of the main reason and why it took longer this time. I'm wondering if the problem is related to Cloudflare or the hosting servers, and I believe the hosting company can provide an answer for this error and suggest ways to prevent it.
Some of us can't live without Bitcointalk for even few hours LOL!

Luckily or unluckily (don't know what to call it), I did not experience this big outage today and the reason for this was that I wasn't online on bitcointalk at this moment.

However, i know that these days we often experience outages in bitcointalk, the previous recent one was experienced by me when Re: Bitcointalk was down .

It is true that we cannot live without bitcointalk but what worries me is that theymos is also not sure why the forum is facing too many of these downtimes recently.

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

It was the same weird thing which caused a few hours of downtime 6-12 months ago, and I think it's what causes the few minutes of downtime people observe every few weeks. I've never been able to figure out what causes it.

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Quote from: GxSTxV on October 12, 2023, 02:02:01 PM

In my opinion this is a serious issue, and even the administrators here are not aware of the main reason and why it took longer this time. I'm wondering if the problem is related to Cloudflare or the hosting servers, and I believe the hosting company can provide an answer for this error and suggest ways to prevent it.

The hosting company will not be providing an answer to what caused the downtime or ways to prevent it.
It is impossible to have a website or app with zero downtimes, but when it last as long as 2-3 hours then it is a problem that you will not want to repeat itself.

Hopefully the update on the server end will be able to fix whatever issues that caused the downtime.

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This morning, I got worried when I noticed an unusual delay that took hours and different than previous time where it took only few minutes. I texted some friends and tried using different devices thinking the issue might be only on my device or my home network. But after checking websites like isitdownrightnow, I discovered that the problem is with everyone. In my opinion this is a serious issue, and even the administrators here are not aware of the main reason and why it took longer this time. I'm wondering if the problem is related to Cloudflare or the hosting servers, and I believe the hosting company can provide an answer for this error and suggest ways to prevent it.
Some of us can't live without Bitcointalk for even few hours LOL!

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Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on October 12, 2023, 07:35:32 AM

I was online at that time and I was waiting boringly for almost an hour, pressing the refresh button LOL. It was fully down in everywhere.

Years ago I probably would've been in the same boat, eager to see what kind of drama was playing out or browsing the Speculation section during one of the raging bull markets. Maybe it's a change in attitude or enthusiasm or the state of the forum, but while I did in fact notice that bitcointalk was down for a lot longer than it normally goes down for, I just got up from my busted-up chair, stretched my legs, and went for a bike ride.

That was hours ago, and *yay!* we're back. I don't know much about cloudfare, but I thought there might be some kind of DDOS attack (and if that were to happen, some other screen would probably show up, right?). So let's get back to the fun and games, kids.

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Quote from: dkbit98 on October 12, 2023, 01:06:18 PM

Maybe they are working on adding new 2FA forum patch, but I am just speculation and hoping for this Wink

Hah that would be great but unfortunately that wasn't the reason for this and it looks like even theymos is not really sure why that keeps happening every once in a while.

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

It was the same weird thing which caused a few hours of downtime 6-12 months ago, and I think it's what causes the few minutes of downtime people observe every few weeks. I've never been able to figure out what causes it. It looks like the network gets cut between the web server and the database for a while. It seems to always happen at around the same time, so I suppose it's probably some automated maintenance process messing something up, but I don't have anything running at this time, so I wonder if it's something in the web-host's networking infrastructure, or something like that. It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

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Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:35:56 AM

It's a good thing that admins were at hand and got the servers back online. But may I ask what was the cause of the outage in the first place?

Maybe they are working on adding new 2FA forum patch, but I am just speculation and hoping for this Wink

I think something strange is also happening with cloudflare, today I got a message that I am in some waiting line and that I have to wait for one minute to continue to website... don't know if this is related or not.

Quote from: BitcoinGirl.Club on October 12, 2023, 07:35:32 AM

I was online at that time and I was waiting boringly for almost an hour, pressing the refresh button LOL. It was fully down in everywhere.

Crazy!

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

Gremlins attack Wink

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Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

It was the same weird thing which caused a few hours of downtime 6-12 months ago, and I think it's what causes the few minutes of downtime people observe every few weeks. I've never been able to figure out what causes it. It looks like the network gets cut between the web server and the database for a while. It seems to always happen at around the same time, so I suppose it's probably some automated maintenance process messing something up, but I don't have anything running at this time, so I wonder if it's something in the web-host's networking infrastructure, or something like that. It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

Ok so theymos made the "I" bold... "I don't have anything running at this time"... does it mean someone else have been running things but theymos don't want to name him Cheesy

This reminds me of working on one project where daily backup of the database used to take ages (3-4 hours) and during this time no one was allowed to run any thing on the server. But as soon as we use to start backup someone will run some other tasks on the server everyone in db team started running around and asking who's running that? who's doing this? and everybody will be like... no I didn't run anything, but we knew who's doing that Cheesy

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

(The few minutes of downtime just now was due to me doing something, and is unrelated.)

So for those few minutes of downtime you caused, hey, we all have our moments, right? At least we can blame that on you.

Anyway thanks for keeping the ship sailing, even when those rare downtimes. We appreciate your hard work!

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.) Maybe that'll fix it just by virtue of moving things to different areas.

Also it's great to hear you're planning an upgrade in the moving things around might just be the secret sauce to overcome the mysterious downtime. And "slightly improved speed" – it's huge, every millisecond counts in the bitcoin world!

"there will be no user-visible changes" yeah thank you, but when? When there will be user-visible changes

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Quote from: SmartGold01 on October 12, 2023, 09:25:28 AM

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 12, 2023, 04:57:35 AM

Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

What?
Could this be the cause of the shut down and how does he generates money to pay the bill?

Calm down, It was just a joke!

I'm sure that the forum has enough money to keep running for a very long time. Even theymos said so when he disabled forum advertising.

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So far downtime has happened very often, but today I felt something different. The downtime is too long and it has made me wait more than 1 hour and keep trying to log in in various ways. I checked ninjastic to see if it was just a mistake on my part, but apparently there were no new posts at that time.

I returned after a few hours, thankfully it was back to normal. To be honest I was really hoping the forum would get back to normal quicker as usual, but I was wrong as it seems the recovery happened after 3 hours. Something needs to be done and I'm excited about the improvement plans theymos just announced.

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Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

Do you see a pizza or Fedex van outside?
If so then we can safely say that one of the three letter agencies is grabbing up the data Cheesy

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Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:41:46 AM

Quote from: pakhitheboss on October 12, 2023, 04:40:55 AM

Forum outrage happening quite frequently, today might be the longest one. Glad to see it is back and running smoothly.

There was also (a brief) one yesterday and another on October 8.

Though I didn't experienced that of yesterday and on 8 October as well, todays own took longer time and was pissed off since I am more closer to this forum than any other social media today. Most times I don't finds it interesting visiting other site except here and I am really gaining lot of knowledge here, well does this means the forum can shut down anytime without properly being handled and why is it always happening like this please don't be mad at my questions.

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 12, 2023, 04:57:35 AM

Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

What?
Could this be the cause of the shut down and how does he generates money to pay the bill?

Edit..

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

Could it be a witch somewhere is always monitoring you when sleeping to attack the forum?
Never mind my jokes 😂

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Just realized now that this afternoon the forum experienced downtime, because I felt that at that time I was not accessing the forum because of other activities. Cheesy

This has happened before, I wouldn't be surprised by this downtime, everything will return to normal after a few hours.

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months.

Want to see what happens after upgrading the server, for now we will continue as normal?

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Whenever there is a site downtime, I don’t really panic too much about it because this is not the first time and whenever it happens, it always come back after some time. The only problem is that, you can’t tell when the site will go off and when it’ll be back.

Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.) Maybe that'll fix it just by virtue of moving things to different areas.

I hope this solves the problem when done. I believe this have made many users scare out on what could have been the case of the forum that it’s facing downtime for too long and more often unlike before.

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Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.) Maybe that'll fix it just by virtue of moving things to different areas.

We hope we will expect a better experience than now. Thanks for coming in and writing a few words. I was logged in again when the latest downtime occurred.

Quote from: FatFork on October 12, 2023, 08:20:28 AM

I'm feeling disappointed now. Sad

i think the plan for the upgrade is because of this unknown downtime accoutred a few times in the past.

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Quote from: theymos on October 12, 2023, 08:10:36 AM

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.)

For a brief moment there, you had me wondering where this was going. LOL!

I'm feeling disappointed now. Sad

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Having this kind of experience is not the first time on the forum and this is when it undergoing some maintenance, but as OP have noted, this does not happened today alone, also some other networks were also affected as well that the internet became inaccessible, there are many reasons to have caused such outage which are beyond our own knowledge, though we had some people releasing circulars some fews weeks ago that the whole internet is going to be shut down between 10th and 11th of October 2023 which something like that eventually happened, i hope everything that is all about this maintenance or development should be in our favour, both on this forum and on the general use of the internet.

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It was the same weird thing which caused a few hours of downtime 6-12 months ago, and I think it's what causes the few minutes of downtime people observe every few weeks. I've never been able to figure out what causes it. It looks like the network gets cut between the web server and the database for a while. It seems to always happen at around the same time, so I suppose it's probably some automated maintenance process messing something up, but I don't have anything running at this time, so I wonder if it's something in the web-host's networking infrastructure, or something like that. It's difficult to diagnose, since it happens rarely, and usually when I'm sleeping.

I'm planning on upgrading the main servers sometime in the next few months. (Just as part of standard maintenance: there will be no user-visible changes other than perhaps slightly improved speed.) Maybe that'll fix it just by virtue of moving things to different areas.

(The few minutes of downtime just now was due to me doing something, and is unrelated.)

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Quote from: JeromeTash on October 12, 2023, 06:12:18 AM

Quote from: Majestic-milf on October 12, 2023, 04:47:45 AM

My issue is why it constantly occurs and had there has been no way of solving it. It's a Ddos attack and it's quite disturbing. Imagine being unable to access the forum for about three hours! Is this the longest or are we going to see more

You probably weren't here just before the forum started using Cloudflare DDoS protection. The outages were far more frequent, and sometimes the forum would load so slowly for hours. What happened today was one of a kind in a long time.

However, I have noticed that the frequency of the DDoS attacks seems to be on the increase once again. But this happens to other sites too from time to time and not just Bitcointalk

Today's outage actually took a longer time than expected, judging from the previous downtime that I have experienced here, I almost lost hope of posting today, coming back several times to check and noticing that the issue was not yet resolved. The issue with this outage is that it usually took us unaware without prior information on what is going on with the site until the restoration.

Good to have the site back.

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I was online at that time and I was waiting boringly for almost an hour, pressing the refresh button LOL. It was fully down in everywhere.

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 12, 2023, 04:57:35 AM

Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

Need automatic bitcoin payment setup.

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Great, I thought it was my end that broke the connection. Anyways this is not the first time this happened but after a long wait I started to break down myself whether it’s my end deal or what. Tried checking from different connections also.

If this is response to DDos attacks then is it a mechanism to save the data from blowing up OR is itself a problem within our servers?

Just curious whether this is a wake up call for the admins to make the site more protected from such attacks? I think we need to bring up the discussion of adding 2FA one more time. Tongue

Edit:

Ahh wait just checked the tweet sneak peak from @EarnOnVictor, it seems we fried some hardwares. Hmm.

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Quote from: Majestic-milf on October 12, 2023, 04:47:45 AM

My issue is why it constantly occurs and had there been no way of solving it. It's obviously a Ddos attack and it's quite disturbing. Imagine being unable to access the forum for about three hours! Is this the longest or are we going to see more

You probably weren't here just before the forum started using Cloudflare DDoS protection. The outages were far more frequent, and sometimes the forum would load so slow for hours. What happened today was one of a kind in a long time.

However, I have noticed that the frequency of the DDoS attacks seems to be on the increase once again. But this happens to other sites too from time to time and not just Bitcointalk

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Everyone who checked the site at that time would definitely face the same issue and it was more than 3 hours of downtime. It's a domain error and I'm glad it's back on now.

This same thing happened in June and was later notified on the X platform, but the same was not the case this time.

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Quote from: Rikafip on October 12, 2023, 05:32:45 AM

Was this a record and if it wasn't, whats the longest that forum has been down? If you have that info.

I don't know, my scraper was blocked by Cloudflare for days (while the forum worked) in the past, so I can't really know this data.

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Quote from: LoyceV on October 12, 2023, 05:23:39 AM

The forum was down for 3 hours, and almost 24 minutes between post 62982720 and post 62982721.

Was this a record and if it wasn't, whats the longest that forum has been down? If you have that info.

Maybe it just felt that way, but for me it seemed like the longest one in the last 4 years since I joined the forum.

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Quote from: Odohu on October 12, 2023, 05:21:48 AM

This is my first time of noticing the forum outage that took this long to restore. At a point I was worried as I am already getting addicted to the forum. Glad we are back online.

No wonder you were scared, I have experienced it before and when I came online and saw the error I just went ahead to do other things irl. But this one seems to have take a longer time to be resolved.

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Quote from: pooya87 on October 12, 2023, 04:51:23 AM

The 62,940,389 Posts in 1,366,119 Topics by 3,567,459 Members probably blew up the servers. Who made the last post? It was the last straw Cheesy

Let's all blame AlexandrTDS Tongue

Quote from: joker_josue on October 12, 2023, 05:04:14 AM

I read some news about strong waves of DDos attacks in recent days. Perhaps the forum was caught in the middle of these attacks.

Unlikely: Cloudflare worked just fine. Unless there was a DDOS on the forum's real IP address, but I'd assume it's hidden.

The forum was down for 3 hours, and almost 24 minutes between post 62982720 and post 62982721.

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Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:35:56 AM

I can't be the only one who saw this new outage today that was ~3 hours long. I checked DownForEveryoneOrJustMe and other websites which confirmed the case, when I tried to go to the site and Cloudflare gave me the 504 error.

This is my first time of noticing the forum outage that took this long to restore. At a point I was worried as I am already getting addicted to the forum. Glad we are back online.

Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:35:56 AM

But may I ask what was the cause of the outage in the first place?

In one Telegram group someone posted it was a DDoS attack but I know only admin and the tech savvy guys can explain what happened and why it took this long. I am just a Bitcoiner Cheesy

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Quote from: joker_josue on October 12, 2023, 05:04:14 AM

I read some news about strong waves of DDos attacks in recent days. Perhaps the forum was caught in the middle of these attacks.

Anyway, these are situations that can happen. The important thing is to be back.

Absolutlely.

But it would be great if they won't let us in the dark during this day. I also checked Twitter (aehh I mean X) and couldnt find much about it.
I mean, we are back in busines for a few minutes so we should calm down but I would appreciate if the staff would share some updates/infos about this downtime.

I myself have never experienced such a long downtime here. Huh

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I also experienced this outage for some hours as well seeing the error message displayed I thought we no longer have forum again. Although not too familiar with this errors and I tried to asking around people I know they said is just a common system updates or upgrade this time it will work more effectively.

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Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:35:56 AM

I can't be the only one who saw this new outage today that was ~3 hours long. I checked DownForEveryoneOrJustMe and other websites which confirmed the case, when I tried to go to the site and Cloudflare gave me the 504 error.

It's a good thing that admins were at hand and got the servers back online. But may I ask what was the cause of the outage in the first place?

I think this problem is with me not being able to access the forum. I also think something will happen once the forum returns to normal. But I didn't notice anything different at this time or I didn't realize that there was anything new after almost 3 hours after my first post today, the forum displayed the gateway time-out error code 504.
I don't know... But I want to know why this gateway time-out occurs.

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I read some news about strong waves of DDos attacks in recent days. Perhaps the forum was caught in the middle of these attacks.

Anyway, these are situations that can happen. The important thing is to be back.

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So anyway, I applied as a merit source :)

Finally we are back in business and the thread in Meta has started. Was the first place I checked to be sure that I was not the only one, though I had already got same replies from other members on telegram.

But this is not the only one in the recent month. Hope admins can get the problem solved soon.

Quote from: yahoo62278 on October 12, 2023, 04:57:35 AM

Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

LMAO!

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Theymos just forgot to pay the bills this month. Better make sure to remind him to set some reminders.

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The 62,940,389 Posts in 1,366,119 Topics by 3,567,459 Members probably blew up the servers. Who made the last post? It was the last straw Cheesy

Stats are found here by the way: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

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Thanks moderator for getting back, Yes more than three hours site was down. I make one post today 4 hours ago and after that I want to make a prediction but site was down. unfortunately I missed today contest prediction.

This is thirds or fourth time I experience with the site down error. This error force me to think " How hard life without Bitcointalk". This forum is now became a part of my life and I spend most of time here.

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My issue is why it constantly occurs and had there been no way of solving it. It's obviously a Ddos attack and it's quite disturbing. Imagine being unable to access the forum for about three hours! Is this the longest or are we going to see more

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Feels good to be finally back after that 3hour + break

and this seems to be a regular occurrence this month, any official standing of what's happening to avoid speculation and all...

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Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:35:56 AM

It's a good thing that admins were at hand and got the servers back online. But may I ask what was the cause of the outage in the first place?

someone on the Bitcoin party discord mentioned that he heard there was a vulnerability on HTTPS which allows easier DDoS attacks, not sure if it is related or not and the person who posted that info on discord seems not sure about it too.

would be nice to hear something from the admit regarding the recent error 504

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I checked the Twitter account @bitcointalk and didn't find anything but https://ninjastic.space/ recorded zero posts in the last 2 hours, a few posts 3 hours ago which means the error lasted for 3 hours and 20 minutes, let's hope there is an update or Less on Twitter next time.
It keep the same session and I am not asked to log in again.

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Same for everyone Cry

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Quote from: pakhitheboss on October 12, 2023, 04:40:55 AM

Forum outrage happening quite frequently, today might be the longest one. Glad to see it is back and running smoothly.

There was also (a brief) one yesterday and another on October 8.

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Finally. Its quite long, it seems that there is a problem as I saw some tweet on twitter that forum isnt accesible and when I checked its not really working. What seems to be the problem? I thought forum is getting hacked or compromise already.

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I experience this also, guess we all did now wondering what was the cause of it though?

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Forum outrage happening quite frequently, today might be the longest one. Glad to see it is back and running smoothly. I doubt the admins would respond or give the reason.

_act_

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This error use to take some minutes before the forum will start working properly again, but this took like 3 hours. I have only seen this the second time on this forum, I mean the long time down time.

Quote from: NotATether on October 12, 2023, 04:35:56 AM

It's a good thing that admins were at hand and got the servers back online. But may I ask what was the cause of the outage in the first place?

It is only admin that can tell us what caused it. But as we always know it is either caused by little update or an attack. It is nice seeing the forum working back again.

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yeah its been down a while! Nice to have it back

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I can't be the only one who saw this new outage today that was ~3 hours long. I checked DownForEveryoneOrJustMe and other websites which confirmed the case, when I tried to go to the site and Cloudflare gave me the 504 error.

It's a good thing that admins were at hand and got the servers back online. But may I ask what was the cause of the outage in the first place?

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