Messageboards Unavailable every, like, 10 seconds

[Jeremiziah]

Am I the only person for whom the Messageboards are Unavailable for short bursts every 5 minutes or so?

[Scribbling Rambler]

No.

[The Jade]

Jeremiziah wrote:

Am I the only person for whom the Messageboards are Unavailable for short bursts every 5 minutes or so?

Nope. I so suffer.

[Gary Teter]

I think the repeated unavailability was due to one of the servers needing a kick, which it has now received. You may still see the "temporarily unavailable" message if we have a lot of traffic today, but it shouldn't be a constant occurrence like it has been this morning.

[Heathansson]

I think it's a little rat, nibbling on a wire somewhere, who's addicted to electric shocks.
Lil' freak.

[Jeremiziah]

Heathansson wrote:

I think it's a little rat, nibbling on a wire somewhere, who's addicted to electric shocks.

Lil' freak.

I killed all the rats in Paizo's basement. It was the first quest I received from Mortimer T. Questgiver. Gotta be what Gary said. :-P

[Tessius]

Gary Teter wrote:

I think the repeated unavailability was due to one of the servers needing a kick, which it has now received. You may still see the "temporarily unavailable" message if we have a lot of traffic today, but it shouldn't be a constant occurrence like it has been this morning.

I just had a mental image of Gary giving a server a 'kick' ala Inception lol.

[Heathansson]

Jeremiziah wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

I think it's a little rat, nibbling on a wire somewhere, who's addicted to electric shocks.

Lil' freak.

I killed all the rats in Paizo's basement. It was the first quest I received from Mortimer T. Questgiver. Gotta be what Gary said. :-P

Yeah....you didn't kill the young. Lawful goodygoody.

[DmRrostarr]

Heathansson wrote:

Jeremiziah wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

I think it's a little rat, nibbling on a wire somewhere, who's addicted to electric shocks.

Lil' freak.

I killed all the rats in Paizo's basement. It was the first quest I received from Mortimer T. Questgiver. Gotta be what Gary said. :-P

Yeah....you didn't kill the young. Lawful goodygoody.

They just forgot to feed the hamsters in the little wheels that power up the servers....

For the love of all things holy feed them Gary!!

[Jeremiziah]

Heathansson wrote:

Yeah....you didn't kill the young. Lawful goodygoody.

True, forgot about that. In fact, I felt so bad for them I even fed them. Curse you, paladin code! *shakes fist*

[Heathansson]

DmRrostarr wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

Jeremiziah wrote:

Heathansson wrote:

I think it's a little rat, nibbling on a wire somewhere, who's addicted to electric shocks.

Lil' freak.

I killed all the rats in Paizo's basement. It was the first quest I received from Mortimer T. Questgiver. Gotta be what Gary said. :-P

Yeah....you didn't kill the young. Lawful goodygoody.

They just forgot to feed the hamsters in the little wheels that power up the servers....

For the love of all things holy feed them Gary!!

Oh. I thought those were woofy snax.

[Marc Radle]

Just an FYI - this is happening again this morning ... at least for me anyway.

Is the APG PDF available for download today? If so, that would probably explain it.

[Jeremiziah]

Bump - I know there are other performance-based threads around, but they seem to reference slowness, not the complete unavailability of the Boards every other time I hit the server... anything going on there, or am I destined to wallow in the mire of post-APG sluggishness?

[Gary Teter]

This is basically a performance-related problem. If an instance of the website detects that it's been taking too long to respond to requests, it will temporarily restrict access to the messageboards. Once the instance determines that its response time is within guidelines then it re-enables messageboards. Right now this unavailable period shouldn't be more than sixty seconds at the most, though under extreme traffic loads it can be longer.

The new code I'm working on should be much better about this sort of thing, and I hope to roll it out soon, possibly as early as next week.

[Jeremiziah]

Word up, Mr. Teter.

Sorry, don't mean to keep haranguing you about it. I hope you take the fact that my life is 80% less entertaining without your messageboard as a compliment.

Whether or not you additionally take it as a damning commentary on my life is purely up to you.

:-p

[McGurk]

The messageboards have been driving me frickin' nuts today. They're up, they're down, ad infinitum. What the heck?

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

McGurk wrote:

The messageboards have been driving me frickin' nuts today. They're up, they're down, ad infinitum. What the heck?

Pretty much everyone I know who goes on these forums has been complaining too. Its been more unavailable than available, I have to try and post a message about 4 times before it takes on average.

[Marc Radle]

Not only the message boards ... the rest of the site went down a number of times yesterday as well!

[Spes Magna Mark]

Gary Teter wrote:

The new code I'm working on should be much better about this sort of thing, and I hope to roll it out soon, possibly as early as next week.

Does that include the publisher uploader for PDFs? I've been unable to access that since about Wednesday?

Mark L. Chance | Spes Magna Games

[Geistlinger]

Gary Teter wrote:

The new code I'm working on should be much better about this sort of thing, and I hope to roll it out soon, possibly as early as next week.

Or get a new Server Hamster. :P

[Scipion del Ferro]

Runs around with hands in the air

Out reality is crumbling!!

Whatever you did, undo it, it's worse than before, PM G. I'm having PBP withdrawals.

[Dhampir984]

Amusingly enough, I opened this thread and got messageboards unavailable.But yesterday, I had to abandon my paizo site experience all together because of the sluggishness, slowly and then downright unavailableness of the whole site. Dunno what was going on, but it was making everything hard to use.

[Pathos]

Glad to know it just isn't me... it's been bad today for visiting the site. :o(

[Mortagon]

I've been having problems with the site for a couple of days now. Not just the messageboards, but the store as well.

[Fangdelicious]

I've been getting the "no store" page every time I bring up the site the first time I try to go to it in a browser session. Usually, I can just reload it a few times and it works after that but if I close my browser or go away for awhile it comes back.

[Kingbreaker]

I am having a hard time with the message boards - they are down seemingly 50% of the time.

[Shuriken Nekogami]

for me, they are down seemingly 80% of the time right now.

[Scipion del Ferro]

Not bad tonight. I probably should have updated my PBPs...but I didn't want to get hurt again....

[LostSoul]

Still Bad Today.

[McGurk]

TETER!

[Dragonborn3]

Can't.. comply with.. border-line obssesive need.. to check for new posts... paizo.com trying to cause insanity...

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

Dragonborn3 wrote:

Can't.. comply with.. border-line obssesive need.. to check for new posts... paizo.com trying to cause insanity...

+1. I feel you bro

[Laithoron]

Frustrating in the extreme. When the nostore or "messageboards are temporarily unavailable" messages don't show, the error I end up getting is:

"Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects."

Not sure if that's related to the problem, but considering I haven't seen anyone else post it in the threads regarding the outage, I figured it might be useful to know...

[Jeremiziah]

Laithoron wrote:

Frustrating in the extreme. When the nostore or "messageboards are temporarily unavailable" messages don't show, the error I end up getting is:

"Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects."

Not sure if that's related to the problem, but considering I haven't seen anyone else post it in the threads regarding the outage, I figured it might be useful to know...

I got that yesterday, but only when using Google Chrome.

[Jeremiziah]

There we go, much better now. Thanks, Paizo!!

[MisterSlanky]

It was much better for the better part of Monday but now (10:30 CDT), it seems as if the hamster needs a kick again.

[MisterSlanky]

The server was working much better for the better part of Monday but now (around 10:30 CDT) it seems like the server hamster needs another kick.

(This is the second attempt at posting)

[Scipion del Ferro]

Just updated all 6 PBPs without a hitch, thank you oh PostMonster General!

[Meatpuppet]

Man what is wrong with this site

Pages take forever to load and that is when I am not getting the "no store" message.

[CourtFool]

Slow load times for me.

[Alexander Kilcoyne]

Yup, its back. Messageboards unavailable every third click...

[Dhampir984]

Alexander Kilcoyne wrote:

Yup, its back. Messageboards unavailable every third click...

Oh NoStore Golem. How we missed you! You came back to us to bless us with your presence again!

[Gary Teter]

I blame sunspots. Or Cosmo.

Seriously though, I hope to roll out some new code later this week that will make stuff lots faster.

[Jagyr Ebonwood]

Dhampir984 wrote:

Alexander Kilcoyne wrote:

Yup, its back. Messageboards unavailable every third click...

Oh NoStore Golem. How we missed you! You came back to us to bless us with your presence again!

No Store Golem: SLAs include Slow, Time Stop, and Dispel Little Black Dots.

[Dhampir984]

Jagyr Ebonwood wrote:

No Store Golem: SLAs include Slow, Time Stop, and Dispel Little Black Dots.

And of course, it has construct traits too. Blast it all!

[Treppa]

Things seem... better...

JINX!