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songfight.org offline (503)
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 9:59 pm
by MintyHandy
songfight.org offline (503 errors) at 8:59pm PST, still offline at this writing. East-coast midnight server maintenance, quota limit, or something more sinister?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:01 pm
by MintyHandy
Nevermind, it's back. Ignore me; I'm a tech guy and prone to pointing out server outages.
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2006 10:54 pm
by fluffy
503 would probably be an underlying thing with the shared server Song Fight is hosted from.
Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:30 am
by rone rivendale
I saw the same error around the same time, heh.
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:58 pm
by mico saudad
I've had several fairly long stretches of 503 over the last couple days, FYI
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:40 pm
by pegor
me too 1/2/07 2200ish pst
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 4:38 pm
by mico saudad
maybe I'm logging too much time on the boards, but I'm now getting the 503 error about 10% of the time I try to view...
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:01 pm
by jb
I have yet to replicate this.
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 8:13 pm
by Magnetbox
It's been happening pretty regularly to me all day today. I think I've only seen the front page 10% of the time.
All I see is:
Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:02 pm
by jb
Ok, i just saw this a minute ago. Submitting support ticket.
JB
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:30 pm
by Spud
I saw it, and hit reload several times. No dice.
Then I went to songfight.net, no problem, and clicked over to the main page at songfight.org. Voila. Go figure.
SPUD
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 9:38 pm
by jack
yeah, maybe for the past 3-4 days now it's been on and off with no consistency. always the 503 error.
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 10:37 pm
by mico saudad
usually it prevents me from accessing any part of the web site but today:
9:38pm pst - 503 when trying to access the 'submit art' link
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:43 pm
by fluffy
Shadowy Puppetmaster told me to pass on word that there was a massive amount of stuff happening from what he(?) termed "HOTLINKING HERETICS" and that said HERETICS have been, in his words, ELIMINATED.
The site seems to be back up now in any case.
(Dreamhost has some stuff which is intended to temporarily shut down a site when it's detecting a DDoS, and apparently this elimination of the HERETICS has removed that condition from the server. In this case it's a good thing since it saves the fightmasters from a huge bandwidth bill due to the recent surge in mp3 search engines and referral spammers who don't care that they're wasting peoples' bandwidth without actually doing anything useful for anyone.)
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:45 pm
by shadowy puppetmaster
THAT WAS NOT TO BE PASSED ALONG BY THE FLUFFY HERETIC. IT WAS STATED TO THE HERETIC IN THE STRICTEST CONFIDENCE BECAUSE THEY KEPT ON WANTING TO "HELP."
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
ALSO. NO MORE INNER CABAL FOR YOU.
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 3:37 pm
by jb
I received this error again today, but it was fairly soon after I tried recreating the httpd_conf file as suggested in the Dreamhost user forum. I haven't seen the error since, but that may indicate nothing. Please continue to post here if you see this error.
JB
Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:14 pm
by Billy's Little Trip
I haven't had any problems, and I check in several times a day. But at my site where I post the new fight each week, several people said they also had some issues logging on. Maybe there are different servers for different parts of the States? No one from So Cali seems to be having any problems....that I know of.