C4C downtime

[Gavin Chipper]

Over the last few days the forum was down for a long time. It briefly came back up a few days ago within the main down period. Is the reason known?

[Philip A]

I’ve noticed too. The Wiki was down briefly but seems fine now. Can’t say why though.

[Gavin Chipper]

It's very clunky and slow now. Whatever the cause, I don't think it's gone away.

[Gavin Chipper]

I keep getting that thing with too many users online which was a thing exactly a year ago.

[Tracey Anne Mills]

It is running slowly when you are saving your work, and you get general error when you try edit your page.

[Gavin Chipper]

1323 users online with a record 3370 from 30th April. Last year when this happened the highest number reported in the thread was 896.

[Jamie Weisenberg]

What exactly do people do on this site ? Forums always seem dead .. like a ghost town.

Are you all ghosts ?

[Gavin Chipper]

If so, you must be included in that.

[Philip A]

Seems to be back up and running well now.

[Gavin Chipper]

It wasn't working when I tried earlier today. 1101 users online.

[Gavin Chipper]

It's still slow and clunky now. The problem definitely has not passed.

[Gavin Chipper]

Having vanished completely for a few days it's back with "just" 42 users online and seems to load quickly. Wiki is up (it did go down).

[Ian Fitzpatrick]

Ah, it wasn't my PC then!

[Gavin Chipper]

Just started getting the max users error again but it's working right now. Not out of the woods.

631 users online.

[Gavin Chipper]

The Autosport forum is down now for some reason.

[Fred Mumford]

The Autosport forum is down now for some reason.

That was a max users exceeded error too, perhaps some kind of bot attack on both sites?

Having been a regular poster on that forum for 20 years, that's the first time I can remember any forum meltdown for that reason. Did Norris criticise Max or something?

[Gavin Chipper]

The Autosport forum is down now for some reason.

That was a max users exceeded error too, perhaps some kind of bot attack on both sites?

Having been a regular poster on that forum for 20 years, that's the first time I can remember any forum meltdown for that reason. Did Norris criticise Max or something?

Must have done. What's your username there?

[Philip A]

Still on and off.

[Ian Fitzpatrick]

I've only just managed to get on for the first time in 3 days!

[Gavin Chipper]

992 online.

[Gavin Chipper]

Just 38 online now. Could we finally be seeing our way out of this? I might even update the CO-event parkrun table with the Sheffield results this weekend if it's working properly.

[Gavin Chipper]

1447 online. Clunky.

[Gavin Chipper]

It has been a lot better for a while now. About 60 online now - still weirdly high, but nothing to break the forum.

[Gavin Chipper]

285 online and I got that error message earlier.

[Gavin Chipper]

363 online. Very clunky. The wiki was having problems a few minutes ago but then started working.

[Gavin Chipper]

This still clunks a lot. Over 500 online just now.

[Ian Volante]

Around that now (470) and it's struggling.

[Ian Volante]

Similar problems at the moment. Coincidentally, I just came across someone who's trying to solve this problem by loading unwanted crawlers with vast amounts of data to in theory break them.

https://ache.one/notes/html_zip_bomb

[Gavin Chipper]

Interesting. The problem needs to be looked at though. It's been going on for a while. I'll see if the bat signal works:

[Ben Wilson]

The bat signal is usually meant to summon Batman, not piss him off, but it's worth a try.

[Gavin Chipper]

The bat signal is usually meant to summon Batman, not piss him off, but it's worth a try.

Not sure why you think it would piss him off. But anyway I also sent him an Aptomail, and there's still an open ticket on Apterous.

[Tracey Anne Mills]

Wiki and C4C are very clunky, hopefully I can edit my recaps and get C4C up to speed