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author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 02:44:11 pm
content: Just noticed it , floating on the right of my screen ...But hey , the forum stats has currently 11 Guests, 9 Users ..How in earth there is " High server load " ?

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 02:48:33 pm
content: I had the same thing here. I figured Dave was doing something wacky in the background.

author: PetrosA
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 03:24:17 pm
content: I'm still getting that and occasionally a 503 error with a white page. Something's wonky.Hmm, just had a thought. It could be a general load on the servers which happen to be in Germany. Aren't there some big trade shows going on there now?

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 03:32:24 pm
content: Found was it causing it ...PetrosA must be the reason ... it stays over his name all the time ...

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 04:20:32 pm
content: to be honest I don't recon much on the new server

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 05:36:49 pm
content: I do not have love&hate relations with servers ..But, its not logical this message to report " server status " in a public forum ...I use Firefox .. is it visible also with IE ?

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 05:45:50 pm
content: I'm on firefox too, could this be some sort of malicious code that has gotten into the forum software ? I must say it's rather odd for it to be publicly displayed.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 07:05:45 pm
content: Looks like it's areal SMF mod. Maybe the server load is really high (I did just get a number of 503 errors), or it's a tuning issue. Load average is not always representative for how busy the server is.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 07:08:42 pm
content: well it may be that the main server is loaded and thats nothing to do with us but will effect us or that we are allocated percious little server resources that a couple of people can highly load it, either way it points to a crap hoster

author: orbiter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 08:12:14 pm
content: Yea I'm getting the server load message too now.

author: Matt
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 09:58:40 pm
content: Same here, and was getting 503 Server errors for about 10 minutes trying to access the site.

author: RayJones
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 10:14:56 pm
content: Yeah, but given Dave has put his head in the cloud, so to speak, I'm thinking the EEVblog is some small speck of dust alongside some other very very busy neighbours, and they are the ones consuming the server's resources.

author: orbiter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 10:20:34 pm
content: Quote from: RayJones on September 11, 2010, 10:14:56 pmYea Simple Machines could do with an update me thinks..... Faster simple machines

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 11, 2010, 10:37:19 pm
content: It's a new mod I installed last night and was playing around with.It's now disabled.I didn't know anyone was still getting 503 errors, I haven't seen since the major problems last week and figured it was fixed somehow.Dave.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2010, 07:03:29 am
content: well I got one last night (about 9 hous ago) but have been ok otherwise this last week, personally I'd start yelling at the cloud (lol) their not doing you justice

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2010, 07:25:02 am
content: Just got a bunch of them503 Service UnavailableNo server is available to handle this request.

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2010, 07:31:35 am
content: I got the 503 Service Unavailable too , before 3 minutes , at my first attempt to log in.Well there is issues with the new server , and they are not justified by the EEV traffic .And I just wonder .... what it will happen , if 100 or 200 people likes to visit the forum at the same time !!

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2010, 07:36:02 am
content: maybe Dave can tell us who to contact and we can all start bombarding the hoster with emails telling them what we think of their service

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2010, 08:33:55 pm
content: well I got server unable to handle requests this morning. eally this server provider is a load of crap and needs a kick up the ass, and we can all remind ourselves who we won't be using if we need a host in the future, looks like their books are full already !

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2010, 08:44:30 pm
content: Well its not an simple problem , at messages that you try to upload pictures, the upload looks to last for ever,as at this point , you need the server to be with you , for at list 15 seconds continuously .My uploads needs almost an minute for 300kb of pictures in total..And I do have an 1024kbps upload speed ..

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2010, 06:34:43 pm
content: 503 errors every five minutes. Please tell your hosting provider they are shit.

author: orbiter
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2010, 07:21:59 pm
content: EEVblog is very slow indeed now for me

author: slburris
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2010, 08:24:43 pm
content: Looks like the server is struggling, just got:Internal Server ErrorThe server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@eevblog.podsweat.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.More information about this error may be available in the server error log.Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

author: Kiriakos-GR
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2010, 09:05:36 pm
content: Yes it getting worst ...Got this message .. picture ..

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2010, 10:04:46 pm
content: Yes, I get the same message every now and then but it normally disappears after clicking refresh several times.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 06:32:45 am
content: Quote from: Hero999 on September 13, 2010, 10:04:46 pmnot good enough, this was supposed to be a better service than the old one !

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 07:28:22 am
content: Agreed it's rubbish but when it does work it still seems to be faster. It's probably configured to deny service rather than give an extremely slow service when it gets busy.Do you know what's causing the highest server load?Try reducing the thumbnail size and reducing the colour depth from 32-bit to 8-bit, if possible. I've noticed that some of the thumbnail files are larger than the originals because of the high colour depth used.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 11:31:09 am
content: Quote from: Simon on September 14, 2010, 06:32:45 amI agree. I've had enough of sitecloud.comI am looking at ways to migrate back my old host.Dave.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 12:01:24 pm
content: Quote from: shafri on September 14, 2010, 11:38:24 amProbably. But at least HostMonster was a known quantity, and I still have my account there.It appears to be a server problem. I cannot even get into phpMyAdmin in cPanel.I don't know enough about this shit to know what's going on.Dave.

author: Zero999
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 12:42:39 pm
content: I sometimes get database errors after clicking he post button, then it redirects me back to my post but when I check the thread, my post has been appended to the thread.EDIT1: See attached.EDIT2: Attachments don't seem to be working, uploading with tinypic.com.

author: JohnS_AZ
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 09:49:53 pm
content: I got the 503 error on here starting about 20 minutes ago, so decided to hop over the AmpHour and got the exact same error. They both seemed to come back at nearly the same time.Don't know if they're connected, but thought it might be diagnostic for someone.

author: Simon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 14, 2010, 10:00:11 pm
content: the errors are basically saying that the SERVER is to busy or is "not there" thats nothing to do with SMF thats before you even get into the forum.